#VU16745 Resource exhaustion in Bento4 - CVE-2018-20095
Published: December 27, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16745
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20095
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Bento4
Bento4
Software vendor:
axiomatic-systems
axiomatic-systems
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to excessive memory allocation in EnsureCapacity in Core/Ap4Array.h. A remote attacker can supply specially crafted MP4 file, trigger resource exhaustion, as demonstrated by mp42hls and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address the vulnerability.