vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-17432: NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 24, 2018
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A NULL pointer dereference in H5O_sdspace_encode() in H5Osdspace.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HDF5 file.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-hdf5
Title
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