🛡️ CVE-2022-1515
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-401 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-401
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-05-02
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
matio 1.5.22

References

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2079986
Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/tbeu/matio/issues/186
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2079986
Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/tbeu/matio/issues/186

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