CVE-2015-8791 (GCVE-0-2015-8791)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-01-29 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:29
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-10-20 00:00
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