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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-41210 EUVD-2026-97966

Moonlight Qt: Remote heap buffer overflow in Moonlight Qt H.264 SPS fixup path via crafted seq_parameter_set_id

Published Oct 12, 2026 · Updated Oct 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Moonlight Qt is a GameStream client for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam Link. In version 6.1.0 and earlier, after a victim initiates a streaming session to a malicious host, the host can send a crafted H.264 SPS NAL when Moonlight selects a decoder path that does not advertise CAPABILITY_REFERENCE_FRAME_INVALIDATION_AVC. The SPS fixup path in app/streaming/video/ffmpeg.cpp parses the server-provided data with h264bitstream, where attacker-controlled seq_parameter_set_id is used to index the 32-entry sps_table without validation. A value of 32 or greater causes an out-of-bounds write and remote heap corruption in the Moonlight client. The demonstrated impact is a reliable client crash, while code execution is not established. This issue is fixed in version 6.2.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
moonlight-stream moonlight-qt < 6.2.0 —

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