Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc package, versions <1.10.8-150000.8.7.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.33% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBHDF5FORTRAN1108GNUOPENMPI2HPC-3093598
  • published2 Nov 2022
  • disclosed1 Nov 2022

Introduced: 1 Nov 2022

CVE-2018-13867  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc to version 1.10.8-150000.8.7.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc package and not the libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is an out of bounds read in the function H5F__accum_read in H5Faccum.c.