#VU35762 Resource exhaustion in Bento4


Published: 2019-07-04 | Updated: 2020-08-08

Vulnerability identifier: #VU35762

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13238

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Network

Exploit availability: No

Vulnerable software:
Bento4
Universal components / Libraries / Libraries used by multiple products

Vendor: axiomatic-systems

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

An issue was discovered in Bento4 1.5.1.0. A memory allocation failure is unhandled in Core/Ap4SdpAtom.cpp and leads to crashes. When parsing input video, the program allocates a new buffer to parse an atom in the stream. The unhandled memory allocation failure causes a direct copy to a NULL pointer.

Mitigation
Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Bento4: 1.5.1.0


External links
http://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/issues/396


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.


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