An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function Mat_VarFree() in mat.c.
Weakness
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matio | Matio_project | 1.5.13 (including) | 1.5.13 (including) |
| Libmatio | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Libmatio | Ubuntu | cosmic | * |
| Libmatio | Ubuntu | disco | * |
| Libmatio | Ubuntu | esm-apps/bionic | * |
| Libmatio | Ubuntu | esm-apps/xenial | * |
| Libmatio | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Libmatio | Ubuntu | trusty/esm | * |
| Libmatio | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Libmatio | Ubuntu | xenial | * |