Information Exposure Affecting hdf5 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-HDF5-5099639
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed10 Jul 2018

Introduced: 10 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-13868  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 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:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function H5O_fill_old_decode in H5Ofill.c.