UBUNTU-CVE-2021-36977

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-36977
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2021/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-36977.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-36977
Upstream
Published
2021-07-20T07:15:00Z
Modified
2026-01-06T07:18:08.316877Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.20 and 1.5.21 has a heap-based buffer overflow in H5MMmemcpy (called from H5MMmalloc and H5Cloadentry), related to use of HDF5 1.12.0.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS / libmatio

Package

Name
libmatio
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libmatio@1.5.21-1ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.5.19-2
1.5.21-1
1.5.21-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libmatio-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.5.21-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libmatio11",
            "binary_version": "1.5.21-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "matio-tools",
            "binary_version": "1.5.21-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2021/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-36977.json"