PT-2017-12691 · Matroska · Libebml2

Qflbo · Published 2017-11-09 · Updated 2017-11-22 · CVE-2017-12783

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libebml2 versions prior to 2012-08-26

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted mkv file, specifically through the ReadDataFloat function in ebmlnumber.c.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2012-08-26, update to a version released after 2012-08-26 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-12783

Affected Products

Libebml2

References · 5

• 🔥 https://github.com/Matroska-Org/foundation-source/issues/24 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Nov/19 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12783 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12783 · Security Note
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/144902/mkvalidator-0.5.1-Denial-Of-Service.html · Note