openSUSE Leap 16.0: matio Important Fixes CVE-2025-2337 CVE-2025-2338
opensuse
January 13, 2026
An update that solves 2 vulnerabilities and has 2 bug fixes can now be installed.
Description
This update for matio fixes the following issues:
- update to version 1.5.29:
* Fix printing rank-1-variable in Mat_VarPrint
* Fix array index out of bounds in Mat_VarPrint when printing
UTF-8 character data (boo#1239678, CVE-2025-2337)
* Fix heap-based buffer overflow in strdup_vprintf
(boo#1239677, CVE-2025-2338)
* Changed Mat_VarPrint to print all values of rank-2-variable
* Several other fixes, for example for access violations in
Mat_VarPrint
- Update to version 1.5.28:
* Fixed bug writing MAT_T_INT8/MAT_T_UINT8 encoded character
array to compressed v5 MAT file (regression of v1.5.12).
* Fixed bug reading all-zero sparse array of v4 MAT file
(regression of v1.5.18).
* Updated C99 snprintf.c.
* CMake: Enabled testing.
* Several other fixes, for example for access violations in
Mat_VarPrint.
Patch instructions:
To install this openSUSE security update use the suse recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or...
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Topics Covered
Patch
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 16.0:
libmatio-devel-1.5.29-bp160.1.1
libmatio13-1.5.29-bp160.1.1
matio-tools-1.5.29-bp160.1.1
References
* bsc#1239677
* bsc#1239678
References:
* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2337.html
* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2338.html
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20022-1
Rating: important
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 16.0
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