Ubuntu 26.04 LTS : GStreamer Bad Plugins vulnerabilities (USN-8446-1)

The remote Ubuntu 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8446-1 advisory. It was discovered that GStreamer Bad Plugins incorrectly handled parsing H.266/VVC picture partition data. An attacker could use this issue to cause...

CVE-2026-53701 Gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: gstreamer: out-of-bounds write in h.266/vvc pps picture partition parser

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in GStreamer's H.266/VVC PPS picture partition parser in gst-plugins-bad. In the multi-slice-in-tile processing of gsth266parserparsepicturepartition gsth266parser.c, the loop iterates without checking that the slice index stays within bounds, writin...

CVE-2026-53701: Out-of-bounds Write

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in GStreamer's H.266/VVC PPS picture partition parser in gst-plugins-bad. In the multi-slice-in-tile processing of gsth266parserparsepicturepartition gsth266parser.c, the loop iterates without checking that the slice index stays within bounds, writin...