Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package hdf5  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-HDF5-614535
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed10 Jul 2018

Introduced: 10 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-13873  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (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 the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a buffer over-read in H5O_chunk_deserialize in H5Ocache.c.