Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package hdf5  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2004-HDF5-658154
  • published11 Dec 2017
  • disclosed11 Dec 2017

Introduced: 11 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17509  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

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

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds write vulnerability in the function H5G__ent_decode_vec in H5Gcache.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash or possibly have unspecified other impact someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.