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Use After Free

CVE-2019-20168

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in GPAC version 0.8.0 and 0.9.0-development-20191109. There is a use-after-free in the function gf_isom_box_dump_ex() in isomedia/box_funcs.c.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published