CVE-2015-8791 (GCVE-0-2015-8791)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-01-29 19:00
Modified
2024-08-06 08:29
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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.
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