vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-17509): hdf5 vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 11, 2017
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jul 28, 2025

Description

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds write vulnerability in the function H5G__ent_decode_vec in H5Gcache.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash or possibly have unspecified other impact someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
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