CVE-2019-9028

moderate-risk
Published 2019-02-23

An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. There is a stack-based buffer over-read in the function InflateDimensions() in inflate.c when called from ReadNextCell in mat5.c.

Do I need to act?

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0.45% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
9
CVSS 9.1/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Matio Project

References (4)

Exploit https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/matio
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/tbeu/matio/issues/103
Exploit https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/matio
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/tbeu/matio/issues/103
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moderate-risk
Severity 31/34 · Critical
Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal