A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base MicroDVD subtitle parser. When processing a specially crafted subtitle file, the parser may dereference a NULL pointer, causing the application to crash when a user opens or plays media with a malformed MicroDVD (.sub) subtitle file.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 6.5 · red hatNVD modified 2026-10-30 18:51
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 4
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-119842 vdb-entry, x_refsource_redhat
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2564183 issue-tracking, x_refsource_redhat
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/11238.patch
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2026-0019.html