CVE-2026-61627

libass: libass is a portable subtitle renderer for the `ASS`/SSA (Advanced Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha) subtitle format

CVE-2026-61627 is fixed in 2 products on 1 platform, first by libass9 1:0.17.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1, released July 13, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
n/a
Medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0016
4th percentile

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.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
libass · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 1:0.17.1-1+deb12u1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-61627 Jul 14, 2026
libass · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 1:0.17.3-1+deb13u1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-61627 Jul 14, 2026
libass · Debian 14 1:0.17.5-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-61627 Jul 14, 2026
libass9 · Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (noble) 1:0.17.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 libass9 1:0.17.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 Jul 13, 2026
libass9 · Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (resolute) 1:0.17.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 libass9 1:0.17.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 Jul 13, 2026

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