Out-of-bounds Read Affecting hdf5 package, versions <1.12.1-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.59% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE320-HDF5-7012191
  • published23 May 2024
  • disclosed25 Feb 2019

Introduced: 25 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-9151  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 hdf5 to version 1.12.1-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hdf5 package and not the hdf5 package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.4 library. There is an out of bounds read in the function H5VM_memcpyvv in H5VM.c when called from H5D__compact_readvv in H5Dcompact.c.