Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-36977 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Matio Project Matio 1.5.20/1.5.21
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.20 and 1.5.21 has a heap-based buffer overflow in H5MM_memcpy (called from H5MM_malloc and H5C_load_entry), related to use of HDF5 1.12.0.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 2 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=31265
- https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/matio/OSV-2021-440.yaml
- https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/272
- https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/issues/4999
- https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/commit/37b781ace1b4228fc36483bb7e30c72ea9d4c3d6