Out-of-bounds read in MediaInfo - CVE-2019-11372

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Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU19041

Out-of-bounds read in MediaInfo - CVE-2019-11372

Published: July 8, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19041
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11372
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to perform denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the MediaInfoLib::File__Tags_Helper::Synched_Test() function in Tag/File__Tags.cpp file. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger out-of-bounds read error and crash the affected application.


Affected software

MediaInfo
Fedora
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
mediaconch
libmediainfo
mediainfo

How to mitigate CVE-2019-11372

Install update from vendor's website.

MediaInfo - update to 19.04
mediaconch - addressed in versions 18.03.2-7.el7, 18.03.2-7.fc28, 18.03.2-7.fc29, 18.03.2-7.fc30
libmediainfo - addressed in versions 18.12-3.el6, 18.12-3.el7, 18.12-3.fc28, 18.12-3.fc29, 18.12-3.fc30, 19.04-1.el6, 19.04-1.el7, 19.04-1.fc28, 19.04-1.fc29, 19.04-1.fc30
mediainfo - addressed in versions 19.04-1.el6, 19.04-1.el7, 19.04-1.fc28, 19.04-1.fc29, 19.04-1.fc30

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