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CVE-2015-8792

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-01-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The KaxInternalBlock::ReadData function in libMatroska before 1.4.4 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process heap memory via crafted EBML lacing, which triggers an invalid memory access.

Affected products

• Matroska Libmatroska: through 1.4.3
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

• http://lists.matroska.org/pipermail/matroska-users/2015-October/006985.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00035.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3526
• https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libmatroska/blob/release-1.4.4/ChangeLog
• https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libmatroska/commit/0a2d3e3644a7453b6513db2f9bc270f77943573f
• http://lists.matroska.org/pipermail/matroska-users/2015-October/006985.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00035.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3526
• https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libmatroska/blob/release-1.4.4/ChangeLog
• https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libmatroska/commit/0a2d3e3644a7453b6513db2f9bc270f77943573f

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