CVE-2021-36977
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.
02 Description
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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.49% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 73.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-07-20 06:48Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 01:09Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-07-20
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6e21ac971709a037871d894dabb049328687a718645b2e72b055779163929d24
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/matio/OSV-2021-440.yaml
- bugs.chromium.orghttps://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=31265
- github.comhttps://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/commit/37b781ace1b4228fc36483bb7e30c72ea9d4c3d6
- github.comhttps://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/272
- github.comhttps://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/issues/4999
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS
- libmatio No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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