Resource exhaustion in Bento4 - CVE-2018-20186
Published: December 27, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16744
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20186
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: axiomatic-systems
Affected software:
Bento4
Bento4
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to excessive memory allocation in the AP4_Sample::ReadData in Core/Ap4Sample.cpp. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion, related to AP4_DataBuffer::SetDataSize and AP4_DataBuffer::ReallocateBuffer in Core/Ap4DataBuffer.cpp and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-20186
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address the vulnerability.