Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libhdf5-gnu-hpc package, versions <1.10.8-150300.4.6.1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-SLES153-LIBHDF5GNUHPC-3094309
  • published 2 Nov 2022
  • disclosed 1 Nov 2022

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 libhdf5-gnu-hpc to version 1.10.8-150300.4.6.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libhdf5-gnu-hpc package and not the libhdf5-gnu-hpc 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 H5T_copy in H5T.c.