Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package hdf5  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-HDF5-9889161
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed22 Mar 2020

Introduced: 22 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-10810  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (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 HDF5 through 1.12.0. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function H5AC_unpin_entry() located in H5AC.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.