CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8789
9.6 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-01-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.6 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the EbmlMaster::Read function in libEBML before 1.3.3 allows context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via a "deeply nested element with infinite size" followed by another element of an upper level in an EBML document.
Affected configurations
• matroska libebml (<= 1.3.2)
References
- http://lists.matroska.org/pipermail/matroska-users/2015-October/006985.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00035.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3538 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94924 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0037/ www.talosintelligence.com
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/blob/release-1.3.3/ChangeLog Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/88409e2a94dd3b40ff81d08bf6d92f486d036b24 github.com
- http://lists.matroska.org/pipermail/matroska-users/2015-October/006985.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00035.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3538 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94924 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0037/ www.talosintelligence.com
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/blob/release-1.3.3/ChangeLog Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/88409e2a94dd3b40ff81d08bf6d92f486d036b24 github.com