CVE-2015-8791
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8791
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8791.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8791
- Downstream
- Published
- 2016-01-29T19:59:03Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
- 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 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
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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/24e5cd7c666b1ddd85619d60486db0a5481c1b90
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00035.html