Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libmatio (opens in a new tab)
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- published26 Apr 2025
- disclosed27 Dec 2019
Introduced: 27 Dec 2019
CVE-2019-20019 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:25.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libmatio package and not the libmatio package as distributed by Ubuntu.
An attempted excessive memory allocation was discovered in Mat_VarRead5 in mat5.c in matio 1.5.17.