CVE-2015-8792

medium

Description

The KaxInternalBlock::ReadData function in libMatroska before 1.4.4 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process heap memory via crafted EBML lacing, which triggers an invalid memory access.

References

https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libmatroska/commit/0a2d3e3644a7453b6513db2f9bc270f77943573f

https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libmatroska/blob/release-1.4.4/ChangeLog

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3526

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

Published: 2016-01-29

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N