Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Bento4 - CVE-2018-20659
Published: January 2, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36256
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-2018-20659
CWE-ID: CWE-770
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 1.5.1-627. The AP4_StcoAtom class in Core/Ap4StcoAtom.cpp has an attempted excessive memory allocation when called from AP4_AtomFactory::CreateAtomFromStream in Core/Ap4AtomFactory.cpp, as demonstrated by mp42hls.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-20659
Install update from vendor's website.