#VU35701 NULL pointer dereference in Bento4 - CVE-2019-13959
Published: July 18, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU35701
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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-2019-13959
CWE-ID: CWE-476
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 non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
In Bento4 1.5.1-627, AP4_DataBuffer::SetDataSize does not handle reallocation failures, leading to a memory copy into a NULL pointer. This is different from CVE-2018-20186.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.