Heap-based buffer overflow in matio - CVE-2021-36977
Published: March 28, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU61636
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36977
CWE-ID: CWE-122
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in H5MM_memcpy. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger heap-based buffer overflow and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.
Affected software
matio
Gentoo Linux
sci-libs/matio
Gentoo Linux
sci-libs/matio
How to mitigate CVE-2021-36977
Install update from vendor's website.
matio - update to 1.5.22
sci-libs/matio - update to 1.5.22
sci-libs/matio - update to 1.5.22
External References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=31265
- https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/matio/OSV-2021-440.yaml
- https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/272
- https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/issues/4999
- https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/commit/37b781ace1b4228fc36483bb7e30c72ea9d4c3d6
- https://github.com/tbeu/matio/releases/tag/v1.5.22