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Mageia 8 MGASA-2022-0465 Critical: Matio Heap Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey December 13, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent matio package updates resolve several security vulnerabilities. Critical patches were issued on December 13, 2022, specifically for Mageia 8.
matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.18 through 1.5.21 has a heap-based buffer overflow in ReadInt32DataDouble (called from ReadInt32Data and Mat_VarRead4)

Summary

matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.18 through 1.5.21 has a heap-based buffer overflow in ReadInt32DataDouble (called from ReadInt32Data and Mat_VarRead4). (CVE-2020-36428)
matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.20 and 1.5.21 has a heap-based buffer overflow in H5MM_memcpy (called from H5MM_malloc and H5C_load_entry), related to use of HDF5 1.12.0. (CVE-2021-36977)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31246

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36428

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-36977

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/matio-1.5.23-1.mga8

Severity
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Publication date: 13 Dec 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0465.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-36428, CVE-2021-36977

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