CVE-2019-20208 — dimC_Read in isomedia/box_code_3gpp

dimC_Read in isomedia/box_code_3gpp.c in GPAC from 0.5.2 to 0.8.0 has a stack-based buffer overflow.

01What is this vulnerability?

dimC_Read in isomedia/box_code_3gpp.c in GPAC from 0.5.2 to 0.8.0 has a stack-based buffer overflow.

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: 2020-01-01T23:26:32.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-03-05T22:50:15.334Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/gpac/gpac/issues/1348
• 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_3gpp.c#L1100
• github.com — https://github.com/gpac/gpac/commit/bcfcb3e90476692fe0d2bb532ea8deeb2a77580e