Out-of-bounds Write Affecting tbeu/matio package, versions [0,1.5.22)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.5% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TBEUMATIO-2369487
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Jul 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-36977  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tbeu/matio to version 1.5.22 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.20 and 1.5.21 has a heap-based buffer overflow in H5MM_memcpy (called from H5MM_malloc and H5C_load_entry).

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