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Ubuntu: USN-5185-1 (CVE-2019-17533): MATIO vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-5185-1 (CVE-2019-17533): MATIO vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/13/2019
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
11/15/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libmatio2
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libmatio4
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libmatio9

References

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