Out-of-bounds Read Affecting hdf5-gnu-hpc-devel package, versions <1.10.8-150300.4.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-SLES153-HDF5GNUHPCDEVEL-2856062
  • published 3 Jun 2022
  • disclosed 8 Jun 2022

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 hdf5-gnu-hpc-devel to version 1.10.8-150300.4.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hdf5-gnu-hpc-devel package and not the hdf5-gnu-hpc-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 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_sdspace_decode in H5Osdspace.c.