CVE-2020-10812

Summary

CVECVE-2020-10812
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-03-22 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-04-30 13:23:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function H5F_get_nrefs() located in H5Fquery.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Hdfgroup Hdf5 All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2020-10812: Null pointer dereference in H5Fquery.c – HDF5 - 1.13.0 - Loginsoft Research MISC research.loginsoft.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
hdf5-reports/Vuln_4 at master · Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source of RELEASE.txt - hdf5 - Bitbucket MISC bitbucket.hdfgroup.org Release Notes, 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)
  • 755807 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for hdf5 (SUSE-SU-2024:0538-1)
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