Out-of-Bounds Affecting petsc-gnu-openmpi3-hpc-devel package, versions <3.14.5-150300.3.4.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-PETSCGNUOPENMPI3HPCDEVEL-7919980
  • published6 Sept 2024
  • disclosed5 Sept 2024

Introduced: 5 Sep 2024

CVE-2019-8396  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 petsc-gnu-openmpi3-hpc-devel to version 3.14.5-150300.3.4.4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream petsc-gnu-openmpi3-hpc-devel package and not the petsc-gnu-openmpi3-hpc-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

A buffer overflow in H5O__layout_encode in H5Olayout.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.4 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HDF5 file. This issue was triggered while repacking an HDF5 file, aka "Invalid write of size 2."