ubuntu · CVE-2015-8792

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-01-29 19:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:49:17 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2015-8792 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libmatroska), 8 status rows across 8 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 3, not-affected 3, released 2.

Description:

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.

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