{"id":"CVE-2019-17533","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-17533","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:31:15.111Z","title":"Mat_VarReadNextInfo4 in mat4.c in MATIO 1.5.17 omits a certain '\\0' character, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in strdup_vprintf when uninitialized memory is accessed.","description":"Mat_VarReadNextInfo4 in mat4.c in MATIO 1.5.17 omits a certain '\\0' character, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in strdup_vprintf when uninitialized memory is accessed.","published":"2019-10-13T02:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:24:05.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.2,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125","CWE-908"],"affected":["matio project/matio","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.01692,"percentile":0.76942,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.69%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16856","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/tbeu/matio/commit/651a8e28099edb5fbb9e4e1d4d3238848f446c9a","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00037.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16856","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/tbeu/matio/commit/651a8e28099edb5fbb9e4e1d4d3238848f446c9a","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00037.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17533","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}