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Alpine Linux: CVE-2015-8791: libebml Several vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2015-8791: libebml Several vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/29/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libebml

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