Name: CVE-2018-17234: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-09-20T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-17234, CWE-772, CVSS 6.5, EPSS 0.00101

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade hdf5	Aug 10, 2023	Sep 20, 2018
Suse	—	Upgrade hdf5-gnu-openmpi1-hpc-develUpgrade libhdf5_fortran-gnu-mvapich2-hpcUpgrade hdf5-gnu-openmpi3-hpc-develUpgrade libhdf5_cpp-gnu-openmpi3-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc-moduleUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc-devel-staticUpgrade libhdf5hl_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi1-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi1-hpc-moduleUpgrade libhdf5_hl_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc-moduleUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc-moduleUpgrade libhdf5hl_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl-gnu-mvapich2-hpcUpgrade libhdf5-gnu-openmpi4-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc-develUpgrade libhdf5_hl-gnu-openmpi1-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_cpp-gnu-mpich-hpcUpgrade hdf5-gnu-openmpi3-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi1-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpcUpgrade libhdf5-gnu-mpich-hpcUpgrade libhdf5-gnu-hpcUpgrade hdf5-gnu-mvapich2-hpc-develUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc-devel-staticUpgrade libhdf5_hl_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpcUpgrade hdf5-gnu-mvapich2-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_fortran-gnu-openmpi1-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_fortran-gnu-openmpi3-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_fortran-gnu-openmpi1-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_fortran-gnu-openmpi4-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi1-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi1-hpc-develUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc-devel-staticUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc-develUpgrade libhdf5_cpp-gnu-mpich-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_fortran-gnu-openmpi3-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_fortran-gnu-openmpi4-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_fortran-gnu-mpich-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_cpp-gnu-openmpi4-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-hpc-examplesUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc-devel-staticUpgrade libhdf5hl_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc-moduleUpgrade libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi1-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_cpp-gnu-mvapich2-hpcUpgrade hdf5-gnu-mpich-hpc-develUpgrade libhdf5_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpcUpgrade suse-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl-gnu-mpich-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_fortran-gnu-mvapich2-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_cpp-gnu-openmpi3-hpcUpgrade hdf5-gnu-mpich-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_cpp-gnu-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi1-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl100Upgrade libhdf5-gnu-mvapich2-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl-gnu-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_cpp-gnu-openmpi4-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl-gnu-openmpi4-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_fortran-gnu-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_1_10_8-gnu-hpcUpgrade libhdf5hl_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-hpcUpgrade libhdf5hl_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpcUpgrade hdf5-gnu-hpcUpgrade libhdf5-103Upgrade libhdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpc-devel-staticUpgrade libhdf5_hl_fortran-gnu-mpich-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc-develUpgrade libhdf5_hl-gnu-openmpi3-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_fortran-gnu-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpcUpgrade hdf5-gnu-openmpi4-hpc-develUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi1-hpc-devel-staticUpgrade hdf5-hpc-examplesUpgrade libhdf5_cpp-gnu-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpc-develUpgrade hdf5-gnu-hpc-develUpgrade libhdf5hl_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpcUpgrade hdf5-gnu-openmpi4-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpcUpgrade libhdf5-gnu-openmpi3-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_hl_cpp-gnu-mvapich2-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpc-moduleUpgrade libhdf5-gnu-openmpi1-hpcUpgrade libhdf5_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpcUpgrade hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc-devel	Aug 9, 2024	Sep 20, 2018
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade libhdf5-mpich-10 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-cpp-103 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-cpp-11 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-cpp-100 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-openmpi-103 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-java (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade hdf5-tools (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-10 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-jni (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-openmpi-100 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-100 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-103 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-7 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-openmpi-10 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-mpich-100 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-openmpi-7 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade hdf5-helpers (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-mpich-103 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libhdf5-mpich2-7 (Ubuntu Pro)	Mar 22, 2023	Sep 20, 2018

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