vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-17435: hdf5 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 24, 2018
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A heap-based buffer over-read in H5O_attr_decode() in H5Oattr.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HDF5 file. This issue was triggered while converting an HDF file to GIF file.

Solution

debian-upgrade-hdf5
Title
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