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Ubuntu: USN-4817-1 (CVE-2017-17506): HDF5 vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4817-1 (CVE-2017-17506): HDF5 vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/11/2017
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-hdf5-helpers
  • ubuntu-upgrade-hdf5-tools
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-10
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-100
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-7
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-cpp-100
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-cpp-11
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-dev
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-doc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-jni
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-mpi-dev
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-mpich-10
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-mpich-100
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-mpich-dev
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-mpich2-7
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-openmpi-10
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-openmpi-100
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-openmpi-7
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-openmpi-dev
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhdf5-serial-dev

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