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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CVE-2019-6966

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Bento4 1.5.1-628. The AP4_ElstAtom class in Core/Ap4ElstAtom.cpp has an attempted excessive memory allocation related to AP4_Array<AP4_ElstEntry>::EnsureCapacity in Core/Ap4Array.h, as demonstrated by mp42hls.

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

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published