Out-of-bounds read in HDF5 - CVE-2019-8397
Published: February 17, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36131
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-8397
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.4 library. There is an out of bounds read in the function H5T_close_real in H5T.c.
Affected software
HDF5
How to mitigate CVE-2019-8397
Install update from vendor's website.