Out-of-bounds Read Affecting hdf5 package, versions [,1.10.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-HDF5-2370950
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17437  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade hdf5 to version 1.10.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1