Out-of-bounds read in matio - CVE-2019-17533
Published: October 13, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU21746
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17533
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the Mat_VarReadNextInfo4() function in mat4.c in matio when processing a certain '' character. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or crash the application.
Affected software
matio
Fedora
matio
Fedora
matio
How to mitigate CVE-2019-17533
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
matio - addressed in versions 1.5.18-1.el7, 1.5.18-1.el8, 1.5.18-1.fc31, 1.5.18-1.fc32, 1.5.18-1.fc33