Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU36921

Out-of-bounds read in HDF5 - CVE-2018-13873

Published: July 10, 2018 / Updated: June 2, 2022

Vulnerability identifier: #VU36921

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-13873

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 buffer over-read in H5O_chunk_deserialize in H5Ocache.c. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.

HDF5
openEuler
hdf5
hdf5-devel
hdf5-debugsource
hdf5-debuginfo

Install update from vendor's website.

hdf5 - update to 1.8.20-10
hdf5-devel - update to 1.8.20-10
hdf5-debugsource - update to 1.8.20-10
hdf5-debuginfo - update to 1.8.20-10