Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libhdf5_fortran-gnu-mpich-hpc package, versions <1.10.8-150200.8.4.3


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.33% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-LIBHDF5FORTRANGNUMPICHHPC-2852805
  • published2 Jun 2022
  • disclosed1 Jun 2022

Introduced: 1 Jun 2022

CVE-2018-13870  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 libhdf5_fortran-gnu-mpich-hpc to version 1.10.8-150200.8.4.3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libhdf5_fortran-gnu-mpich-hpc package and not the libhdf5_fortran-gnu-mpich-hpc package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 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_link_decode in H5Olink.c.