CVE-2019-20630 — An issue was discovered in libgpac

An issue was discovered in libgpac.a in GPAC before 0.8.0, as demonstrated by MP4Box. It contains a heap-based buffer over-read in BS_ReadByte (called from gf_bs_read_bit) in utils/bitstream.c that can cause a denial of service via a crafted MP4 file.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in libgpac.a in GPAC before 0.8.0, as demonstrated by MP4Box. It contains a heap-based buffer over-read in BS_ReadByte (called from gf_bs_read_bit) in utils/bitstream.c that can cause a denial of service via a crafted MP4 file.

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: 2020-03-24T18:14:55.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T02:46:10.330Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/gpac/gpac/commit/1ab4860609f2e7a35634930571e7d0531297e090
• github.com — https://github.com/gpac/gpac/issues/1268