CVE-2026-125712 — Red Hat
HIGHCVE-2026-125712 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.2) Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability. The records list no fixed version yet; check the vendor advisory below and apply the mitigations in the meantime.
A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base RTCP SDES packet parser. A remote sender able to reach an active media session can supply a malformed SDES entry whose declared length…
Description
A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base RTCP SDES packet parser. A remote sender able to reach an active media session can supply a malformed SDES entry whose declared length exceeds the received packet. Missing bounds validation can cause the receiver to read beyond the packet buffer, potentially crashing the application or exposing a limited amount of process memory.
Detection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Remediation status
The records we use list no fixed release for CVE-2026-125712. Check the upstream advisory for a patched version, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Stop feeding it untrusted input: reject or quarantine files and payloads from unverified sources until you can upgrade, restrict accepted formats to the ones you actually need, and run the parsing or decoding step in a least-privileged sandbox or short-lived worker so a crash or corrupted read cannot reach the rest of the process.
Frequently Asked Questions
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