Resource Exhaustion Affecting hdf5 package, versions <1.14.5+repack-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.06% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-HDF5-18067098
  • published21 Jul 2026
  • 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?

Upgrade Echo:latest hdf5 to version 1.14.5+repack-2 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 Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest 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.