Buffer overflow in matio - CVE-2019-9026
Published: February 23, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36111
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9026
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
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 in the function InflateVarName() in inflate.c when called from ReadNextCell in mat5.c.
Affected software
matio
Fedora
libASL
matio
openmeeg
Fedora
libASL
matio
openmeeg
How to mitigate CVE-2019-9026
Install update from vendor's website.
libASL - update to 0.1.7-6.el7
matio - update to 1.5.17-3.el7
openmeeg - update to 2.4-0.4.rc4.el7
matio - update to 1.5.17-3.el7
openmeeg - update to 2.4-0.4.rc4.el7