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High · 7.3 CVE-2026-61627 EUVD-2026-114007

libass: Out-of-bounds read and write in wrap_lines_measure

Published Oct 30, 2026 · Updated Oct 30, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

libass is a portable subtitle renderer for the `ASS`/SSA (Advanced Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha) subtitle format. Prior to 0.17.5, libass can overread and overwrite the glyph array in `wrap_lines_measure` while rendering malicious `ASS` content. In `wrap modes other than two`, a final line ending with a literal backslash-n sequence and otherwise consisting only of such sequences or spaces can remain after early trimming and make the line-measurement loops overshoot by one glyph. When the total text size exactly matches the allocated glyph-array capacity, the first loop reads an uninitialized 32-bit fixed-point `pos.x` value, although that value is not subsequently used. The second loop writes `pos.x` and `pos.y` beyond the array, zeroing the first and adding an attacker-controllable offset to the second. No actual exploitation beyond possible denial of service is known; broader exploitation is theoretical and constrained by the addresses, limited writes, and ASLR. This issue is fixed in version 0.17.5.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
libass libass < 0.17.5 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 libass 1:0.17.5-1 —
Debian 13 libass 1:0.17.3-1+deb13u1 —
Debian 12 libass 1:0.17.1-1+deb12u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS libass 1:0.17.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 USN-8815-1
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS libass 1:0.17.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 USN-8815-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS libass 1:0.14.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 USN-8815-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS libass 1:0.14.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 USN-8815-1
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS libass 0.10.1-3ubuntu1+esm2 USN-8815-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed libass 0.17.5-2.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12515-1

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