CVE-2018-17234 (NVD)

2018-09-20

Memory leak in the H5O__chunk_deserialize() function in H5Ocache.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HDF5 file.

Products Hdf5
Type Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime (CWE-772)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln3#memory-leak---h5o__chunk_deserialize_memory_leak
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00009.html