Matio
CVE-2019-20052
MEDIUM
Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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1DescriptionNVD
A memory leak was discovered in Mat_VarCalloc in mat.c in matio 1.5.17 because SafeMulDims does not consider the rank==0 case.
AnalysisAI
A memory leak was discovered in Mat_VarCalloc in mat.c in matio 1.5.17 because SafeMulDims does not consider the rank==0 case. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
Technical ContextAI
This vulnerability is classified as Memory Leak (CWE-401), which allows attackers to exhaust available memory leading to denial of service. A memory leak was discovered in Mat_VarCalloc in mat.c in matio 1.5.17 because SafeMulDims does not consider the rank==0 case. Affected products include: Matio Project Matio.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Ensure all allocated memory is properly freed. Use RAII patterns or garbage-collected languages.
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An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), th
An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), th
An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), th
An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), th
An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), th
Mat_VarReadNextInfo4 in mat4.c in MATIO 1.5.17 omits a certain '\0' character, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read
An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this v
An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this v
An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this v
An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this v
An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this v
Same weakness CWE-401 – Memory Leak
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