Candidate: CVE-2015-8789
PublicDate: 2016-01-29 19:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8789
 https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/88409e2a94dd3b40ff81d08bf6d92f486d036b24
 https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/blob/release-1.3.3/ChangeLog
 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00035.html
 http://lists.matroska.org/pipermail/matroska-users/2015-October/006985.html
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 sbeattie> mkvtoolnix contains an embedded copy of libebml, but looks
   to use the system version
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H [9.6 CRITICAL]

Patches_libebml:
upstream_libebml: released (1.3.3)
precise_libebml: released (1.2.2-2+deb7u1build0.12.04.1)
trusty_libebml: released (1.3.0-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1)
trusty/esm_libebml: DNE (trusty was released [1.3.0-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1])
vivid_libebml: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_libebml: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_libebml: DNE
wily_libebml: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_libebml: not-affected (1.3.3-1)
devel_libebml: not-affected (1.3.3-1)