CVE-2021-21848

HIGH

GPAC 1.0.1 - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow via MPEG-4 stz2 Atom Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists within the MPEG-4 decoding functionality of the GPAC Project on Advanced Content library v1.0.1. The library will actually reuse the parser for atoms with the “stsz” FOURCC code when parsing atoms that use the “stz2” FOURCC code and can cause an integer overflow due to unchecked arithmetic resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow that causes memory corruption. An attacker can convince a user to open a video to trigger this vulnerability.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1297
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4966

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0158
EPSS Percentile 72.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119 CWE-680
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
debian/debian_linux 11.0
gpac/gpac 1.0.1
Published Aug 25, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026