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Mageia 7: MGASA-2021-0285 Critical: Matio Memory Leak Issue

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Calendar Grey June 25, 2021
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A security notice regarding MGASA-2021-0285 highlights an issue of memory leakage found in Matio impacting Mageia 7, published on June 25, 2021.
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 (CVE-2019-20052)

Summary

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 (CVE-2019-20052).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27969

- https://github.com/tbeu/matio/commit/a47b7cd3aca70e9a0bddf8146eb4ab0cbd19c2c3

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20052

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical software fix memory leak Mageia Matio

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/matio-1.5.16-1.2.mga7

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Publication date: 25 Jun 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0285.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-20052

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical software fix memory leak Mageia Matio

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