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CVE-2026-61627

DiscoveredOct 30, 2026UpdatedOct 30, 2026

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…

CVSS v3.1
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EPSS
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probability of exploitation in 30 days
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no confirmed exploitation reported
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Oct 30, 2026
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