PT-2016-4020
CVE-2015-8790
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Published
2016-01-29
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Updated
2017-01-20
Description by
CVSS 3.1
4.3
MediumMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
libEBML versions prior to 1.3.3
Description
The issue allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process heap memory via a crafted UTF-8 string, which triggers an invalid memory access. This occurs in the EbmlUnicodeString::UpdateFromUTF8 function.
Recommendations
For versions prior to 1.3.3, update to version 1.3.3 or later to resolve the issue.
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