Critical FFmpeg Vulnerability Lets Hackers Execute Remote Code via Malicious Media Files

A critical memory corruption vulnerability in FFmpeg has been disclosed, allowing for remote code execution through specially crafted media files. This flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8461 and named “PixelSmash,” affects the MagicYUV decoder within FFmpeg’s libavcodec library and has a CVSS score of 8.8. Discovered by JFrog Security Research, the vulnerability arises from a heap out-of-bounds […]

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