vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-aeb7874e-8df1-11e6-a082-5404a68ad561: mkvtoolnix -- code execution via specially crafted files

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 9, 2016
Added
Nov 14, 2016
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

Moritz Bunkus reports: most of the bugs fixed on 2016-09-06 and 2016-09-07 for issue #1780 are potentially exploitable. The scenario is arbitrary code execution with specially-crafted files.

Solution

freebsd-upgrade-package-mkvtoolnix

References

Title
Rapid7 Labs

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