Out-of-bounds read in HDF5 - CVE-2018-14035
Published: July 13, 2018 / Updated: June 2, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36909
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14035
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer over-read in the function H5VM_memcpyvv in H5VM.c. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.
Affected software
HDF5
How to mitigate CVE-2018-14035
Install update from vendor's website.