Resource Exhaustion Affecting hdf5 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-HDF5-1547710
  • published16 Mar 2021
  • disclosed21 Aug 2018

Introduced: 21 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-15671  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:12 hdf5.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hdf5 package and not the hdf5 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library. Excessive stack consumption has been detected in the function H5P__get_cb() in H5Pint.c during an attempted parse of a crafted HDF file. This results in denial of service.