Resource exhaustion in Bento4 - CVE-2019-6966
Published: January 26, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36188
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-2019-6966
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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.
An issue was discovered in Bento4 1.5.1-628. The AP4_ElstAtom class in Core/Ap4ElstAtom.cpp has an attempted excessive memory allocation related to AP4_Array<AP4_ElstEntry>::EnsureCapacity in Core/Ap4Array.h, as demonstrated by mp42hls.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-6966
Install update from vendor's website.