CVE-2018-17439 — Out-of-bounds Write in Hdf5

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds WriteCWE-121 — Stack-based Buffer Overflow8 documents6 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.29%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Hdfgroup Hdf5Debian Hdf5
Timeline
PublishedSep 24
Latest updateMay 13

Description

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.3 library. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function H5S_extent_get_dims() in H5S.c. Specifically, this issue occurs while converting an HDF5 file to a GIF file.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/hdf5< hdf5 1.14.5+repack-1 (forky)
▶Debianhdfgroup/hdf5< 1.14.5+repack-1+1
▶NVDhdfgroup/hdf51.10.3

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-9xv2-rxpw-qh6j: An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-17439: An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1↗2018-09-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
hdf5: stack-based buffer overflow in H5S_extent_get_dims() in H5S.c↗2018-09-24
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Debian
CVE-2018-17439: hdf5 - An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.3 library. There is a stack-based b...↗2018
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17439 hdf5: stack-based buffer overflow in H5S_extent_get_dims() in H5S.c [fedora-all]↗2018-09-28
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17439 hdf5: stack-based buffer overflow in H5S_extent_get_dims() in H5S.c [epel-all]↗2018-09-28
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17439 hdf5: stack-based buffer overflow in H5S_extent_get_dims() in H5S.c↗2018-09-28
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