Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU36732

Out-of-bounds read in HDF5 - CVE-2018-16438

Published: September 4, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU36732

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16438

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: HDF Group

Affected software:
HDF5

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is an out of bounds read in H5L_extern_query at H5Lexternal.c.

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