Resource exhaustion in Bento4 - CVE-2019-7698
Published: February 10, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36168
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-7698
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 AP4_Array<AP4_CttsTableEntry>::EnsureCapacity in Core/Ap4Array.h in Bento4 1.5.1-627. Crafted MP4 input triggers an attempt at excessive memory allocation, as demonstrated by mp42hls, a related issue to CVE-2018-20095.
Affected software
Bento4
How to mitigate CVE-2019-7698
Install update from vendor's website.