Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

[ Description ]Official 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.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ References ]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