CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-9031

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Feb 23, 2019 | Modified: Feb 27, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

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 *

Potential Mitigations

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