cve-2015-8790
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-01-29 19:00
Modified
2024-08-06 08:29
Severity ?
Summary
The EbmlUnicodeString::UpdateFromUTF8 function in libEBML before 1.3.3 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process heap memory via a crafted UTF-8 string, which triggers an invalid memory access.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.matroska.org/pipermail/matroska-users/2015-October/006985.htmlVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00035.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3538
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85307
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95124
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0036/
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/blob/release-1.3.3/ChangeLogVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/ababb64e0c792ad2a314245233db0833ba12036b
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.matroska.org/pipermail/matroska-users/2015-October/006985.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00035.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3538
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85307
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95124
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0036/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/blob/release-1.3.3/ChangeLogVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/ababb64e0c792ad2a314245233db0833ba12036b
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