Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libmatio package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
1.35% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBMATIO-340097
  • published23 Feb 2019
  • disclosed23 Feb 2019

Introduced: 23 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-9028  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 libmatio.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libmatio package and not the libmatio package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. There is a stack-based buffer over-read in the function InflateDimensions() in inflate.c when called from ReadNextCell in mat5.c.