Out-of-bounds Write Affecting suse-hpc package, versions <0.5.20220206.0c6b168-150000.11.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.51% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-SUSEHPC-2856563
  • published3 Jun 2022
  • disclosed2 Jun 2022

Introduced: 2 Jun 2022

CVE-2017-17509  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 suse-hpc to version 0.5.20220206.0c6b168-150000.11.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds write vulnerability in the function H5G__ent_decode_vec in H5Gcache.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash or possibly have unspecified other impact someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.