Is CVE-2026-116741 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-116741?

CVE-2026-116741 has a CVSS v3 severity of MEDIUM (6.5).

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CVE-2026-116741

Description

Speex (libspeex) through 1.2.1 contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in speex_bits_read_whole_bytes() in libspeex/bits.c that mishandles length truncation for non-owned SpeexBits buffers. Attackers can stream crafted Speex data into buffers set up with speex_bits_init_buffer() or speex_bits_set_bit_buffer() to corrupt heap or stack memory and crash applications.