Use-after-free vulnerability in the EbmlMaster::Read function in libEBML before 1.3.3 allows context-dependent attackers to have…

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the EbmlMaster::Read function in libEBML before 1.3.3 allows context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via a "deeply nested element with infinite size" followed by another element of an upper level in an EBML document.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.6.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• DSA-3538 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 94924 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2016:0125 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/88409e2a94dd3b40ff81d08bf6d92f486d036b24 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [matroska-users] 20151020 libEBML v1.3.3, libMatroska v1.4.4 released: important fixes (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/blob/release-1.3.3/ChangeLog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0037/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 08:29 UTC.