Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU36923

#VU36923 Out-of-bounds read in HDF5 - CVE-2018-13875

Published: July 10, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU36923

Vulnerability risk: High

CVSSv4.0: 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-2018-13875

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerable software:
HDF5

Software vendor:
HDF Group

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 the function H5VM_memcpyvv in H5VM.c.

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