CVE-2019-20171 — An issue was discovered in GPAC version 0

An issue was discovered in GPAC version 0.5.2 and 0.9.0-development-20191109. There are memory leaks in metx_New in isomedia/box_code_base.c and abst_Read in isomedia/box_code_adobe.c.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in GPAC version 0.5.2 and 0.9.0-development-20191109. There are memory leaks in metx_New in isomedia/box_code_base.c and abst_Read in isomedia/box_code_adobe.c.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-12-30T23:53:51.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-03-04T21:23:48.434Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/gpac/gpac/issues/1337
• lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00017.html
• github.com — https://github.com/gpac/gpac/blob/v0.5.2/src/isomedia/box_code_adobe.c