Bug#904897: mp4v2: CVE-2018-14403

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: mp4v2
Version: 2.0.0~dfsg0-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for mp4v2.

CVE-2018-14403[0]:
| MP4NameFirstMatches in mp4util.cpp in MP4v2 2.0.0 mishandles substrings
| of atom names, leading to use of an inappropriate data type for
| associated atoms. The resulting type confusion can cause out-of-bounds
| memory access.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14403
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14403
[1] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/07/18/3

Regards,
Salvatore