CVE-2019-8378

Publication date 17 February 2019

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
kodi-inputstream-adaptive	25.10 questing	Needs evaluation
	25.04 plucky	Needs evaluation
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

alexmurray

kodi-inputstream-adaptive contains an embedded copy of bento4

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H