CVE-2019-9038

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions matio versions 1.5.13

Description An issue was discovered in the MAT File I/O Library, specifically in the libmatio.a component. The problem is an out-of-bounds read that results in a segmentation fault (SEGV) in the ReadNextCell() function, located in the mat5.c file.

Recommendations For matio version 1.5.13, as a temporary workaround, consider disabling the ReadNextCell() function until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.