UBUNTU-CVE-2026-66040

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-66040
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-66040.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-66040
Upstream
Published
2026-07-24T20:18:00Z
Modified
2026-08-21T20:32:08Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • 8.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit b506faf, contains a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the native PNG and APNG encoders that allows remote attackers to corrupt heap memory by supplying a crafted PNG image with a malicious eXIf chunk. Attackers can craft an eXIf chunk where multiple IFD entries reference the same large value payload, causing canonical serialization to expand the output far beyond the undersized allocation estimated by add_exif_profile_size(), resulting in png_write_chunk() writing tens of thousands of bytes past the buffer boundary, leading to deterministic heap corruption, process crash, and potentially arbitrary code execution.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS / libav

Package

Name
libav
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libav?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

6:0.*
6:0.8.7-1ubuntu2
6:9.*
6:9.10-1ubuntu1
6:9.10-1ubuntu2
6:9.10-1ubuntu5
6:9.10-1ubuntu6
6:9.10-1ubuntu7
6:9.11-2ubuntu1
6:9.11-2ubuntu2
6:9.13-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
6:9.14-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
6:9.16-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libav-tools",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavcodec-extra",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavcodec-extra-54",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavcodec54",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavdevice-extra-53",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavdevice53",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavfilter-extra-3",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavfilter3",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavformat-extra-54",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavformat54",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavresample1",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavutil-extra-52",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libavutil52",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libswscale-extra-2",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libswscale2",
            "binary_version": "6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-66040.json"