vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-10809: hdf5 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 22, 2020
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0. A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the function Decompress() located in decompress.c. It can be triggered by sending a crafted file to the gif2h5 binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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