Resource Exhaustion Affecting hdf5 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.49% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-HDF5-9894640
  • published29 Apr 2025
  • disclosed20 Sept 2018

Introduced: 20 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17234  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 hdf5.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hdf5 package and not the hdf5 package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Memory leak in the H5O__chunk_deserialize() function in H5Ocache.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HDF5 file.