Out-of-bounds Write Affecting hdf5 package, versions [,1.10.11)[1.12.0-alpha1,1.12.3)[1.14.0,1.14.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-HDF5-2370960
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Mar 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-10809  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade hdf5 to version 1.10.11, 1.12.3, 1.14.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write in the function Decompress() located in decompress.c. It can be triggered by sending a crafted file to the gif2h5 binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

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