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CVE-2019-20170

Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

Published: Dec 31, 2019 | Modified: Oct 14, 2022
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20170
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/763.html

An issue was discovered in GPAC version 0.8.0 and 0.9.0-development-20191109. There is an invalid pointer dereference in the function GF_IPMPX_AUTH_Delete() in odf/ipmpx_code.c.

Weakness

The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but it calls the wrong release function or calls the appropriate release function incorrectly.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gpac Gpac 0.8.0 (including) 0.8.0 (including)
Gpac Gpac 0.9.0 (including) 0.9.0 (including)
Gpac Ubuntu bionic *
Gpac Ubuntu disco *
Gpac Ubuntu eoan *
Gpac Ubuntu groovy *
Gpac Ubuntu trusty *
Gpac Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Gpac Ubuntu xenial *

Extended Description

This weakness can take several forms, such as:

Potential Mitigations

  • Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
  • For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.

References

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