Bug 2079986 (CVE-2022-1515) - CVE-2022-1515 matio: memory leak in Mat_VarReadNextInfo5() in mat5.c
Summary: CVE-2022-1515 matio: memory leak in Mat_VarReadNextInfo5() in mat5.c
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-1515
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2079987
Blocks: Embargoed2076325 Red Hat2079991
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Reported: 2022-04-28 16:58 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2022-04-28 17:01 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: matio 1.5.22, matio 1.5.23
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A memory leak was discovered in matio 1.5.21 and earlier in Mat_VarReadNextInfo5() in mat5.c via a crafted file. This issue can potentially result in DoS.
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-04-28 16:58:54 UTC 
A memory leak was discovered in matio 1.5.21 and earlier in Mat_VarReadNextInfo5() in mat5.c via a crafted file. This issue can potentially result in DoS.

Reference:
https://github.com/tbeu/matio/issues/186

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/tbeu/matio/commit/b53b62b756920f4c1509f4ee06427f66c3b5c9c4
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-04-28 16:59:08 UTC 
Created matio tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2079987]
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