Out-of-bounds write in matio - CVE-2019-9032

 

Out-of-bounds write in matio - CVE-2019-9032

Published: February 23, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU36117
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-2019-9032
CWE-ID: CWE-787
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 an out-of-bounds write problem causing a SEGV in the function Mat_VarFree() in mat.c.


Affected software

matio
Fedora
libASL
matio
openmeeg

How to mitigate CVE-2019-9032

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

External References

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