CVE-2015-8789 (GCVE-0-2015-8789)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-01-29 19:00
Modified
2024-08-06 08:29
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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