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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-20659

An issue was discovered in Bento4 1.5.1-627. The AP4_StcoAtom class in Core/Ap4StcoAtom.cpp has an attempted excessive memory allocation when called from AP4_AtomFactory::CreateAtomFromStream in Core/Ap4AtomFactory.cpp, as demonstrated by mp42hls.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:18 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-20659

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Jan 2019, 17:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in Bento4 1.5.1-627. The AP4_StcoAtom class in Core/Ap4StcoAtom.cpp has an attempted excessive memory allocation when called from AP4_AtomFactory::CreateAtomFromStream in Core/Ap4AtomFactory.cpp, as demonstrated by mp42hls.

osv:CVE-2018-20659
Complete source record
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