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Mageia 8 MGASA-2021-0558 Moderate: Matio Memory Leak Risk

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Calendar Grey December 19, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates for matio packages have addressed a memory leak vulnerability found in Mageia, impacting version 1.5.17 and logged as CVE-2019-20052.
Updated matio packages fix security vulnerability: 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 (C...

Summary

Updated matio packages fix security vulnerability:
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=29164

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

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update memory leak mageia matio

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/matio-1.5.21-1.mga8

Publication date: 19 Dec 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0558.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-20052

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update memory leak mageia matio

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