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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
Jan 29, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Oct 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

alpine-linux-upgrade-libebml
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