Debian: DSA-3526-1: libmatroska security update

It was discovered that libmatroska, an extensible open standard audio/video container format, incorrectly processed EBML lacing. By providing maliciously crafted input, an attacker could use this flaw to force some leakage of information located in the process heap

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3526-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                       Sebastien Delafond
March 23, 2016                        https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : libmatroska
CVE ID         : CVE-2015-8792

It was discovered that libmatroska, an extensible open standard
audio/video container format, incorrectly processed EBML lacing. By
providing maliciously crafted input, an attacker could use this flaw
to force some leakage of information located in the process heap
memory.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.3.0-2+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.1-2+deb8u1.

For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, this
problem has been fixed in version 1.4.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libmatroska packages.

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