CVE-2019-9026 – An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library)

An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function InflateVarName() in inflate.c when called from ReadNextCell in mat5.c.

Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9026

Reference (s):

• https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/matio
• https://github.com/tbeu/matio/issues/103