Resource exhaustion in Bento4 - CVE-2019-13238
Published: July 4, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU35762
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13238
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
An issue was discovered in Bento4 1.5.1.0. A memory allocation failure is unhandled in Core/Ap4SdpAtom.cpp and leads to crashes. When parsing input video, the program allocates a new buffer to parse an atom in the stream. The unhandled memory allocation failure causes a direct copy to a NULL pointer.
Affected software
Bento4
How to mitigate CVE-2019-13238
Install update from vendor's website.