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Fedora 44 FFmpeg Moderate Denial of Service Resolution 2026-bc8f441ba4

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Calendar Grey June 22, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
FFmpeg update for Fedora 44 fixes a denial of service issue. Install with DNF to maintain system security.
The latest stable FFmpeg release from the 8.1 release branch

Summary

FFmpeg is a leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode,

mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and

machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the

cutting edge. No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the

community or a corporation.

This build of ffmpeg is limited in the number of codecs supported.

Update Information:

The latest stable FFmpeg release from the 8.1 release branch. https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/n8.1.2:/Changelog Fixes CVE-2026-30999 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service fedora buffer overflow ffmpeg

Change Log

* Wed Jun 17 2026 Dominik Mierzejewski - 8.1.2-1 - Updated to 8.1.2 (resolves rhbz#2489751) * Thu May 21 2026 Dominik Mierzejewski - 8.1.1-2 - Add Conflicts to prevent installation of mismatched -free and -freeworld builds

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2457971 - CVE-2026-30999 ffmpeg: FFmpeg: Denial of Service via heap buffer overflow in av_bprint_finalize() [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2457971 [ 2 ] Bug #2489751 - ffmpeg-8.1.2 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489751

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-bc8f441ba4' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: ffmpeg
Product: Fedora 44
Version: 8.1.2
Release: 1.fc44
URL: https://ffmpeg.org/
Summary: A complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service fedora buffer overflow ffmpeg

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