CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8791
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-01-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
The EbmlElement::ReadCodedSizeValue function in libEBML before 1.3.3 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process heap memory via a crafted length value in an EBML id, which triggers an invalid memory access.
Affected configurations
• matroska libebml (<= 1.3.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
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
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/blob/release-1.3.3/ChangeLog Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/24e5cd7c666b1ddd85619d60486db0a5481c1b90 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
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/blob/release-1.3.3/ChangeLog Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/24e5cd7c666b1ddd85619d60486db0a5481c1b90 github.com