FKIE_CVE-2015-8789

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-01-29 19:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:35
Severity
9.6 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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/94924
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0037/
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/blob/release-1.3.3/ChangeLogVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/88409e2a94dd3b40ff81d08bf6d92f486d036b24
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/94924
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0037/
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/88409e2a94dd3b40ff81d08bf6d92f486d036b24
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
matroska libebml *
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