CVE-2018-16438

Summary

CVECVE-2018-16438
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-09-04 00:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-26 15:36:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Hdfgroup Hdf5 1.8.20 All All All
Application Hdfgroup Hdf5 1.8.20 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
pocs/hdf5/h5stat at master · TeamSeri0us/pocs · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 752817 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for hdf5 (SUSE-SU-2022:3827-1)
  • 752848 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for hdf5 (SUSE-SU-2022:3826-1)
  • 752860 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for hdf5 (SUSE-SU-2022:3829-1)
  • 752872 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for hdf5 (SUSE-SU-2022:3824-1)
  • 752905 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for hdf5 (SUSE-SU-2022:3828-1)
  • 752922 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for hdf5 (SUSE-SU-2022:3825-1)
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