vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-17506: hdf5 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 11, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds read vulnerability in the function H5Opline_pline_decode in H5Opline.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

Solution

debian-upgrade-hdf5
Title
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