CVE-2017-17509 (NVD)

2017-12-11

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds write vulnerability in the function H5G__ent_decode_vec in H5Gcache.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash or possibly have unspecified other impact someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

Products Hdf5
Type Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/readme.md