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CVE-2023-29575: 
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Bento4 v1.6.0-639 was discovered to contain an out-of-memory bug in the mp42aac component. The vulnerability was disclosed on April 21, 2023 and has been assigned CVE-2023-29575. The vulnerability has been rated with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.5 (Medium) (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists in the mp42aac component where an out-of-memory condition occurs in the AP4Array::EnsureCapacity function when attempting to allocate excessive memory. The issue specifically manifests in the AP4TrunAtom constructor when processing MP4 files. The vulnerability is triggered when the program attempts to allocate 0x800000010 bytes of memory (GitHub Issue).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability can lead to a denial of service condition as the application crashes due to failed memory allocation. The vulnerability requires user interaction as it needs a specially crafted MP4 file to trigger the out-of-memory condition (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been reported to the developers through GitHub issue tracking. As a temporary workaround, users can set allocatormayreturn_null=1, though this is not a complete solution to the underlying issue (GitHub Issue).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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