CVE-2019-8378
It allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.60%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An issue was discovered in Bento4 1.5.1-628. A heap-based buffer over-read exists in AP4_BitStream::ReadBytes() in Codecs/Ap4BitStream.cpp, a similar issue to CVE-2017-14645. It can be triggered by sending a crafted file to the aac2mp4 binary. It allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.60% probability · 76th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-125
- Affected
- axiosys/bento4
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/issues/363Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/a-heap-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-the-function-ap4_bitstreamreadbytes-bento4-1-5-1-628/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/issues/363Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/a-heap-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-the-function-ap4_bitstreamreadbytes-bento4-1-5-1-628/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.