Buffer overflow in Bento4 - CVE-2019-7699
Published: February 10, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36169
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-7699
CWE-ID: CWE-119
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 non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
A heap-based buffer over-read occurs in AP4_BitStream::WriteBytes in Codecs/Ap4BitStream.cpp in Bento4 v1.5.1-627. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause an exception via crafted mp4 input, which leads to a denial of service.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-7699
Install update from vendor's website.