Bug 1276332 (CVE-2015-8789) - CVE-2015-8789 libebml: Use-after-free vulnerability in EblMaster::Read()
Summary: CVE-2015-8789 libebml: Use-after-free vulnerability in EblMaster::Read()
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-8789
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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: CVE-2016-1515 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 1276336 1276337
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-29 13:32 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:39 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libebml 1.3.3
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2018-03-28 21:12:35 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-10-29 13:32:20 UTC 
When the parser encountered a deeply nested element with an infinite size then a following element of an upper level was not propagated correctly. Instead the element with the infinite size was added into the EBML element tree a second time resulting in memory access after freeing it and multiple attempts to free the same memory address during destruction.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/88409e2a94dd3b40ff81d08bf6d92f486d036b24
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-10-29 13:38:21 UTC 
Created libebml tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1276336]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1276337]
Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-02-01 08:35:49 UTC 
Added CVE according to http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-8789/
Comment 3 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2017-01-13 10:13:56 UTC 
*** Bug 1412632 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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