Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in gpac through 20200801. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function nhmldump_send_header located in write_nhml.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-23930
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- 31 Oct 2026, 12:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in gpac through 20200801. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function nhmldump_send_header located in write_nhml.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.
osv:CVE-2020-23930
Complete source record
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