Bug 1412629 (CVE-2016-1514) - CVE-2016-1514 libebml: EbmlUnicodeString Heap Information Leak
Summary: CVE-2016-1514 libebml: EbmlUnicodeString Heap Information Leak
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1303861
Alias: CVE-2016-1514
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1412633 1412634
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-01-12 13:54 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:04 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-01-13 10:14:16 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-01-12 13:54:16 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in libebml. A specially crafted unicode string can cause an off-by-few read on the heap in unicode string parsing code in libebml. This issue can potentially be used for information leaks.

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http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0036/
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-01-12 13:57:59 UTC 
Created libebml tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1412634]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1412633]
Comment 2 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2017-01-12 22:54:53 UTC 
Upon closer investigation, I believe this is a duplicate of CVE-2015-8790 (bug 1303861) and will close it as such upon confirmation from upstream.
Comment 3 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2017-01-13 10:14:16 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1303861 ***
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