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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2023-37765
CVE-2023-37765:
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
GPAC v2.3-DEV-rev381-g817a848f6-master was discovered to contain a segmentation violation in the gf_dump_vrml_sffield function at /lib/libgpac.so. The vulnerability was discovered on July 4, 2023 (GitHub Issue).
Technical details
The vulnerability manifests as a SEGV (segmentation violation) on unknown address 0x000000000003(0x000000000009) in the gf_dump_vrml_sffield function. The issue occurs during MPEG-4 BIFS Scene Parsing when attempting to read from an invalid memory address that points to the zero page. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.5 MEDIUM (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability can lead to software crashes, protection mechanism bypass, memory modification, and potentially remote code execution. When triggered, it causes the application to abort due to undefined behavior in memory access (GitHub Issue).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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