Out-of-bounds Write Affecting hdf5-gnu-openmpi2-hpc-devel package, versions <1.10.8-150100.7.4.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-HDF5GNUOPENMPI2HPCDEVEL-2851257
  • published2 Jun 2022
  • disclosed1 Jun 2022

Introduced: 1 Jun 2022

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 hdf5-gnu-openmpi2-hpc-devel to version 1.10.8-150100.7.4.3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hdf5-gnu-openmpi2-hpc-devel package and not the hdf5-gnu-openmpi2-hpc-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 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.