#VU37768 Out-of-bounds read in HDF5 - CVE-2017-17507 

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#VU37768 Out-of-bounds read in HDF5 - CVE-2017-17507

Published: December 11, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU37768
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-17507
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
HDF5
Software vendor:
HDF Group

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds read vulnerability in the function H5T_conv_struct_opt in H5Tconv.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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