CVE-2026-119842

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2026-119842 · Published 30/10/2026 · updated 05/11/2026

In short

CVE-2026-119842 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.33%, higher than 26.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
—	No affected product versions are listed for this vulnerability yet.

Description

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.

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-119842
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/11238.patch
gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2026-0019.html

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