CVE-2021-40570

Published: 13 January 2022

The binary MP4Box in Gpac 1.0.1 has a double-free vulnerability in the avc_compute_poc function in av_parsers.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service, even code execution and escalation of privileges.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
gpac Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage

	Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)	Needs triage
	Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Needs triage
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Needs triage
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Ignored (out of standard support)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Needs triage
	Patches: Upstream: https://github.com/gpac/gpac/commit/04dbf08bff4d61948bab80c3f9096ecc60c7f302

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-40570
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

https://github.com/gpac/gpac/issues/1899

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