Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS / Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS : AOM vulnerabilities (USN-8772-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS / Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8772-1 advisory. It was discovered that AOM incorrectly handled the first-pass statistics buffer in Look-Ahead Processing...

USN-8772-1: AOM vulnerabilities

It was discovered that AOM incorrectly handled the first-pass statistics buffer in Look-Ahead Processing LAP mode. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a heap buffer overflow, leading to a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2026-56208 It was discovered that AO...

CVE-2026-56211

A remote code execution vulnerability was found in libaom, the reference AV1 codec implementation. Insufficient bounds validation in the AV1 encoder's SVC Scalable Video Coding layer ID control allows an attacker to supply crafted video frame pixels that overlap with internal encoder layer contex...