A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Axiomatic Bento4 up to 1.6.0. This vulnerability affects the function AP4_StdcFileByteStream::ReadPartial of the component mp42aac. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-0753. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details and also a public exploit are known.

It is possible to download the exploit at github.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

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

Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Multimedia Player Software

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• Axiomatic

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• Bento4

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6.0

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• free

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Accepted

• Submit #483326: bento Bento4 v1.6.0 Buffer Overflow (by NPU Unmanned Systems Safety Laboratory)

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