Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-17533",
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    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-17533",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-17533",
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    "severity": "high",
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
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                "source": "https://github.com/tbeu/matio/commit/651a8e28099edb5fbb9e4e1d4d3238848f446c9a",
                "target": {
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                "source": "https://github.com/tbeu/matio/commit/651a8e28099edb5fbb9e4e1d4d3238848f446c9a",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T13:55:34.000226417Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00037.html",
        "https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16856",
        "https://github.com/tbeu/matio/commit/651a8e28099edb5fbb9e4e1d4d3238848f446c9a"
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                    "introduced": "8.0"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 388386,
  "published_at": "2019-10-13T02:15:12.22+00:00"
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