CVE-2017-17505 (NVD)

2017-12-11

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the function H5O_pline_decode in the H5Opline.c file in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

Products Hdf5
Type NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/readme.md