Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Bento4 1.5.1-627. AP4_Sample::ReadData in Core/Ap4Sample.cpp allows attackers to trigger an attempted excessive memory allocation, related to AP4_DataBuffer::SetDataSize and AP4_DataBuffer::ReallocateBuffer in Core/Ap4DataBuffer.cpp.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-20186
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Bento4 1.5.1-627. AP4_Sample::ReadData in Core/Ap4Sample.cpp allows attackers to trigger an attempted excessive memory allocation, related to AP4_DataBuffer::SetDataSize and AP4_DataBuffer::ReallocateBuffer in Core/Ap4DataBuffer.cpp.
osv:CVE-2018-20186
Complete source record
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