CVE-2015-8791

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2016-01-29

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

• Libebml (Matroska)

References

• http://lists.matroska.org/pipermail/matroska-users/2015-October/006985.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00035.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3538
• https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/blob/release-1.3.3/ChangeLog
• https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/24e5cd7c666b1ddd85619d60486db0a5481c1b90