CVE-2021-36977

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Published Jul 20, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS 1.5% KEV · Not listed

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.

Affected Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:matio_project:matio:1.5.20:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:matio_project:matio:1.5.21:::::::*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-23553	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.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: 1.5% (1.496% probability within 30 days)

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=31265
https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/272
https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/matio/OSV-2021-440.yaml
https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/commit/37b781ace1b4228fc36483bb7e30c72ea9d4c3d6
https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/issues/4999

History

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Subscriptions

Matio Project Matio

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Sources

CVE record Updated: Aug 4, 2024, 1:09 AM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Jul 20, 2021, 6:48 AM
Updated: Aug 4, 2024, 1:09 AM
Reserved: Jul 20, 2021, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 17, 2026, 3:59 AM

Status: Modified
Published: Jul 20, 2021, 7:15 AM
Modified: Jun 17, 2026, 3:59 AM

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