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Mageia 7: 2020-0299 Critical: Matio Buffer Over-Read (CVE-2019-17533)

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Calendar Grey July 31, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2020-0300 updates released for matio to address significant buffer overflow issue identified in CVE-2019-17534.
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

Summary

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. (CVE-2019-17533)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26883

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00037.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17533

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Topics Covered

security advisory heap overflow buffer over-read Mageia matio

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/matio-1.5.16-1.1.mga7

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Publication date: 31 Jul 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0299.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-17533

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Topics Covered

security advisory heap overflow buffer over-read Mageia matio

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