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Hole in widely-used FFmpeg codec could crash media servers or enable RCE
A newly discovered critical vulnerability in the FFmpeg media processing framework bundled in a huge number of open source and commercial applications points, again, to the need for CSOs to have strategies to deal with software supply…
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A newly discovered critical vulnerability in the FFmpeg media processing framework bundled in a huge number of open source and commercial applications points, again, to the need for CSOs to have strategies to deal with software supply chain vulnerabilities, which should include demanding a software bill of materials for all products. Found by researchers at JFrog , the hole ( CVE-2026-8461 ) is a heap out-of-bounds write in the MagicYUV decoder that can crash any application that uses the framework.
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