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Debian DSA-3538-1 High Severity: Libebml Use-After-Free Threat

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2016
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Debian Security Notification DSA-4543-2 highlights severe vulnerabilities in libmatroska, which could result in major security risks.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libebml, a library for manipulating Extensible Binary Meta Language files

Summary

CVE-2015-8789

Context-dependent attackers could trigger a use-after-free
vulnerability by providing a maliciously crafted EBML document.

CVE-2015-8790

Context-dependent attackers could obtain sensitive information
from the process' heap memory by using a maliciously crafted UTF-8
string.

CVE-2015-8791

Context-dependent attackers could obtain sensitive information
from the process' heap memory by using a maliciously crafted
length value in an EBML id.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.2.2-2+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.0-2+deb8u1.

For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, these
problems have been fixed in version 1.3.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libebml packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/secu...

Read the Full Advisory

Package: libebml
CVE ID: CVE-2015-8789 CVE-2015-8790 CVE-2015-8791

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