SB2016012901 - Buffer overflow in www.matroska libebml
Published: January 29, 2016 Updated: July 28, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016012901
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8792)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.matroska.org/pipermail/matroska-users/2015-October/006985.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00035.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3526
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libmatroska/blob/release-1.4.4/ChangeLog
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libmatroska/commit/0a2d3e3644a7453b6513db2f9bc270f77943573f