Is CVE-2026-119842 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-119842?

CVE-2026-119842 has a CVSS v3 severity of MEDIUM (6.5).

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CVE-2026-119842

Description

A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base MicroDVD subtitle parser. When processing a specially crafted subtitle file, the parser may dereference a NULL pointer, causing the application to crash when a user opens or plays media with a malformed MicroDVD (.sub) subtitle file.