Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libmatio package, versions <1.5.17-4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-LIBMATIO-472994
  • published13 Oct 2019
  • disclosed13 Oct 2019

Introduced: 13 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17533  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable libmatio to version 1.5.17-4 or higher.

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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

Mat_VarReadNextInfo4 in mat4.c in MATIO 1.5.17 omits a certain '\0' character, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in strdup_vprintf when uninitialized memory is accessed.

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