CVE-2016-4331

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4331
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4331.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4331
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-11-18T20:59:02.240Z
Modified
2026-04-16T01:38:27.754294173Z
Severity
  • 8.6 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

When decoding data out of a dataset encoded with the H5Z_NBIT decoding, the HDF5 1.8.16 library will fail to ensure that the precision is within the bounds of the size leading to arbitrary code execution.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/hdfgroup/hdf5

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/hdfgroup/hdf5
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
28cd632b8d7a280b44cc4d2e18a01a0319d0275d
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:1.8.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.8.16"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

Other
before_removing_docs
before_removing_fphdf5
before_removing_tbbt_code
before_signed_unsigned_changes
hdf5-1_0_0
hdf5-1_0_0-alpha2
hdf5-1_0_1
hdf5-1_2_0
hdf5-1_2_0-beta1-update2
hdf5-1_2_0beta
hdf5-1_2_1
hdf5-1_3_0
hdf5-1_3_1
hdf5-1_4_0
hdf5-1_4_1
hdf5-1_6_0
hdf5-1_6_1
hdf5-1_6_2
hdf5-1_8_0
hdf5-1_8_0-alpha2
hdf5-1_8_0-alpha3
hdf5-1_8_0-alpha4
hdf5-1_8_0-beta1
hdf5-1_8_0-beta2
hdf5-1_8_0-beta3
hdf5-1_8_0-beta4
hdf5-1_8_0-beta5
hdf5-1_8_1
hdf5-1_8_16
hdf5-1_8_2
hdf5-1_8_3
hdf5_1_8_15_precodefreeze_final_commit
proto1
r1_1beta1
vms_last_support_1_8

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4331.json"