What is CVE-2019-9036?

CVE-2019-9036 is a high-severity vulnerability in Matio Project, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-02-23.

How severe is CVE-2019-9036?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Matio Project

CVE-2019-9036

An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function ReadNextFunctionHandle() in mat5.c.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.021 (79.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Matio_project Matio — versions 1.5.13
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-9036?: CVE-2019-9036 is a high-severity vulnerability in Matio Project, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-02-23.
How severe is CVE-2019-9036?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.