cisco -- OpenH264 Decoding Functions Heap Overflow Vulnerability
· CVE-2025-27091 · VuXML entry
Cisco reports: A vulnerability in the decoding functions of OpenH264 codec library could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to trigger a heap overflow. This vulnerability is due to a race condition between a Sequence Parameter Set (SPS) memory allocation and a subsequent non Instantaneous Decoder Refresh (non-IDR) Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) unit memory usage. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability …
Affected versions
- openh264 < 2.5.1,2
By system
1 still vulnerable, 1 fixed. Where VuXML applies (FreeBSD, DragonFly, FreeBSD's derivatives) a port is vulnerable while its version is in a range; pkgsrc says itself whether it lists a CVE of this advisory; OpenBSD and MidnightBSD keep no list this site reads, so their row is only an estimate: FreeBSD's ranges applied to upstream's version.
| System | Port | Version | State | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DragonFly | multimedia/openh264 | 2.3.0,2 | vulnerable since 2025-06-22 | |
| OpenBSD | multimedia/openh264 | 2.6.0 | out of range, by version | |
| NetBSD | multimedia/openh264 | 2.6.0 | not listed | |
| MidnightBSD | multimedia/openh264 | 2.6.0,2 | out of range, by version | |
| FreeBSD | multimedia/openh264 | 2.6.0_1,2 | fixed |