Out-of-bounds read in MediaInfo - CVE-2020-15395

 

Out-of-bounds read in MediaInfo - CVE-2020-15395

Published: June 30, 2020 / Updated: June 24, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU34188
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-15395
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to stack-based buffer over-read in Streams_Fill_PerStream in Multiple/File_MpegPs.cpp (aka an off-by-one during MpegPs parsing). A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

MediaInfo
Fedora
libmediainfo
mediainfo

How to mitigate CVE-2020-15395

Install update from vendor's website.

libmediainfo - update to 20.09-1.fc32
mediainfo - update to 20.09-1.fc32

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