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CVE-2019-17533

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-10-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

Mat_VarReadNextInfo4 in mat4.c in MATIO 1.5.17 omits a certain '\0' character, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in strdup_vprintf when uninitialized memory is accessed.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• tbeu matio: 1.5.17

References

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16856
• https://github.com/tbeu/matio/commit/651a8e28099edb5fbb9e4e1d4d3238848f446c9a
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00037.html
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16856
• https://github.com/tbeu/matio/commit/651a8e28099edb5fbb9e4e1d4d3238848f446c9a
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00037.html

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