CVE-2015-8791

Description

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.

References

https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/24e5cd7c666b1ddd85619d60486db0a5481c1b90

https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/blob/release-1.3.3/ChangeLog

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3538

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00035.html

http://lists.matroska.org/pipermail/matroska-users/2015-October/006985.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3