Heap-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package hdf5 (opens in a new tab)
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- published28 Apr 2025
- disclosed22 Mar 2020
Introduced: 22 Mar 2020
CVE-2020-10809 (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 heap-based buffer overflow exists in the function Decompress() located in decompress.c. It can be triggered by sending a crafted file to the gif2h5 binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1827471
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10809
- https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
- https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_1
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/heap-overflow-in-decompress-c-hdf5-1-13-0/