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CVE-2020-36428

Status: ModifiedHigh (8.8)—

matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.18 through 1.5.21 has a heap-based buffer overflow in ReadInt32DataDouble (called from ReadInt32Data and Mat_VarRead4).

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Matio Project — Matio

CWEs

References

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