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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2018-7339

High
8.8/10

Summary

The MP4Atom class in mp4atom.cpp in MP4v2 through 2.0.0 mishandles Entry Number validation for the MP4 Table Property, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (overflow, insufficient memory allocation, and segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted mp4 file.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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