CVE-2016-1515

Publication date 6 January 2017

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2015-8789. Reason: This candidate is a reservation duplicate of CVE-2015-8789. Notes: All CVE users should reference CVE-2015-8789 instead of this candidate. All references and descriptions in this candidate have been removed to prevent accidental usage

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libebml 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
mkvtoolnix 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

mkvtoolnix contains an embedded copy of libebml, but looks to use the system version duplicate of CVE-2015-8789, see http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/91