CVE-2015-8790
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8790
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8790.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8790
- Downstream
- Withdrawn
- 2026-01-27T04:15:18.149376Z
- Published
- 2016-01-29T19:59:02Z
- Modified
- 2026-01-27T04:15:18.149376Z
- Severity
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- 4.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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
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- http://lists.matroska.org/pipermail/matroska-users/2015-October/006985.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3538
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/blob/release-1.3.3/ChangeLog
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/ababb64e0c792ad2a314245233db0833ba12036b
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00035.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85307
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95124
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0036/