Bug 1684028 (CVE-2019-2031)

Summary:	CVE-2019-2031 matio: NULL pointer dereference in function Mat_VarFree() in mat.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-02-28 09:54:44 UTC

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.

References:
https://github.com/tbeu/matio/issues/103 
https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/matio

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-02-28 09:55:09 UTC

Created matio tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1684030]

Comment 2 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-02-28 09:55:30 UTC

Created matio tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1684032]

Comment 3 Nicholas Luedtke 2019-03-05 13:36:43 UTC

This appears to be a duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1685377. Also, I believe the CVE alias should be CVE-2019-9031 instead of CVE-2019-2031.

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:49:30 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.