Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libmatio package, versions <1.5.13-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.75% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-LIBMATIO-21429486
  • published22 Oct 2026
  • disclosed23 Feb 2019

Introduced: 23 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-9027  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest libmatio to version 1.5.13-2 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 Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest 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 heap-based buffer overflow problem in the function ReadNextCell() in mat5.c.