A vulnerability was found in Bento4 1.5.1-627 (Multimedia Player Software). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function AP4_AtomFactory::CreateAtomFromStream of the file Core/Ap4StcoAtom.cpp. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The bug was discovered 12/31/2018. The weakness was released 01/02/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-20659 since 01/02/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Bento4

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• 1.5.1-627

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