Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package hdf5  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1904-HDF5-527055
  • published24 Sept 2018
  • disclosed24 Sept 2018

Introduced: 24 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17437  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hdf5 package and not the hdf5 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Memory leak in the H5O_dtype_decode_helper() function in H5Odtype.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HDF5 file.