Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package hdf5 (opens in a new tab)
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- published17 Jan 2026
- disclosed22 Mar 2020
Introduced: 22 Mar 2020
CVE-2020-10811 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hdf5 package and not the hdf5 package as distributed by Ubuntu.
An issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0. A heap-based buffer over-read exists in the function H5O__layout_decode() located in H5Olayout.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-10811
- https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
- https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_2
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/heap-buffer-overflow-in-h5olayout-c-hdf5-1-13-0/