CVE-2022-29339 — In GPAC 2

In GPAC 2.1-DEV-rev87-g053aae8-master, function BS_ReadByte() in utils/bitstream.c has a failed assertion, which causes a Denial of Service. This vulnerability was fixed in commit 9ea93a2.

01What is this vulnerability?

In GPAC 2.1-DEV-rev87-g053aae8-master, function BS_ReadByte() in utils/bitstream.c has a failed assertion, which causes a Denial of Service. This vulnerability was fixed in commit 9ea93a2.

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

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

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: 2022-05-05T12:44:58.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T06:17:54.788Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/gpac/gpac/issues/2165
• github.com — https://github.com/gpac/gpac/commit/9ea93a2ec8f555ceed1ee27294cf94822f14f10f