CVE-2015-8789

CriticalCVSS 9.6/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.6/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Jan 29, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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