Description
A flaw was found in the GStreamer gst-plugins-good package. The rtph264depay and rtph265depay RTP depayloader elements do not enforce a maximum size limit on the reassembly buffer used during fragmented RTP packet processing. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send a continuous stream of RTP fragments without ever transmitting an end-of-fragment marker, causing the reassembly buffer to grow without bound until process memory is exhausted. This results in a denial of service through process termination.
Published: 2026-08-06
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

Vendor Workaround

The following mitigations can reduce risk before a patch is available: 1. Use SRTP or DTLS-SRTP: Deploy the srtpdec element in the pipeline before the depayloader. SRTP provides per-packet authentication and will reject unauthenticated fragments before they reach rtph264depay/rtph265depay, completely preventing exploitation. 2. Network-level restriction: Use firewall rules (iptables/nftables) to restrict which sources can send RTP traffic to the GStreamer process. Allow RTP only from trusted, authenticated peers. 3. Build-time exclusion: Disable the entire RTP plugin by configuring with "-Drtp=disabled" in meson build options. This removes all RTP functionality including the vulnerable depayloaders. 4. Runtime element exclusion: Prevent the affected elements from being auto-plugged by setting GST_PLUGIN_FEATURE_RANK=rtph264depay:0,rtph265depay:0. This prevents automatic selection but not explicit pipeline construction.

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Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:30:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in the GStreamer gst-plugins-good package. The rtph264depay and rtph265depay RTP depayloader elements do not enforce a maximum size limit on the reassembly buffer used during fragmented RTP packet processing. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send a continuous stream of RTP fragments without ever transmitting an end-of-fragment marker, causing the reassembly buffer to grow without bound until process memory is exhausted. This results in a denial of service through process termination.
Title Gst-plugins-good: gst-plugins-good: unbounded memory growth in rtph264depay and rtph265depay rtp depayloaders
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Weaknesses CWE-770
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-06T06:48:10.027Z

Reserved: 2026-08-03T11:33:04.652Z

Link: CVE-2026-18649

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Updated: 2026-08-06T08:30:17Z

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