Stack-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package hdf5 (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-HDF5-9888115
- published28 Apr 2025
- disclosed10 Jul 2018
Introduced: 10 Jul 2018
CVE-2018-13874 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hdf5 package and not the hdf5 package as distributed by RHEL.
An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function H5FD_sec2_read in H5FDsec2.c, related to HDmemset.