openSUSE 16 Security Update : matio (openSUSE-SU-2026:20022-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 284818

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:20022-1 advisory.

- update to version 1.5.29:
* Fix printing rank-1-variable in Mat_VarPrint
* Fix array index out of bounds in Mat_VarPrint when printing UTF-8 character data (boo#1239678, CVE-2025-2337)
* Fix heap-based buffer overflow in strdup_vprintf (boo#1239677, CVE-2025-2338)
* Changed Mat_VarPrint to print all values of rank-2-variable
* Several other fixes, for example for access violations in Mat_VarPrint

- Update to version 1.5.28:
* Fixed bug writing MAT_T_INT8/MAT_T_UINT8 encoded character array to compressed v5 MAT file (regression of v1.5.12).
* Fixed bug reading all-zero sparse array of v4 MAT file (regression of v1.5.18).
* Updated C99 snprintf.c.
* CMake: Enabled testing.
* Several other fixes, for example for access violations in Mat_VarPrint.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libmatio-devel, libmatio13 and / or matio-tools packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 284818

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20022-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2026

Updated: 1/15/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-2338

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 2.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:matio-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmatio13, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmatio-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-2337, CVE-2025-2338

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