CVE-2025-59728 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-59728

Heap-buffer-overflow write in FFmpeg MDASH resolve_content_path

Vulnerability Description

When calculating the content path in handling of MPEG-DASH manifests, there's an out-of-bounds NUL-byte write one byte past the end of the buffer.When we call xmlNodeGetContent below [0], it returns a buffer precisely allocated to match the string length, using strdup internally. If this buffer is not an empty string, it is assigned to root_url at [1].If the last (non-NUL) byte in this buffer is not '/' then we append '/' in-place at [2]. This will write two bytes into the buffer, starting at the last valid byte in the buffer, writing the NUL byte beyond the end of the allocated buffer. We recommend upgrading to version 8.0 or beyond.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Google Big Sleep

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

MPEG-DASH
Vulnerable Versions:
7.1.1, a218cafe4d3be005ab0c61130f90db4d21afb5db

Timeline

Official Publish: October 6th, 2025
Last Modified: February 26th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

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