PT-2019-19327 · Mat File I/O Library · Matio

Cool-Tomato · Published 2019-02-23 · Updated 2019-02-27 · CVE-2019-9038

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions matio versions 1.5.13

Description An issue was discovered in the MAT File I/O Library, specifically in the libmatio.a component. The problem is an out-of-bounds read that results in a segmentation fault (SEGV) in the ReadNextCell() function, located in the mat5.c file.

Recommendations For matio version 1.5.13, as a temporary workaround, consider disabling the ReadNextCell() function until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-9038

Affected Products

Matio

References · 9

• 🔥 https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/matio · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9038 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-9038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9038 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-9038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/tbeu/matio/issues/103 · Note