CVE-2018-17436

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17436
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17436.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-17436
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-09-24T14:29:00.917Z
Modified
2026-05-30T10:51:23.205005Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

ReadCode() in decompress.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write access) via a crafted HDF5 file. This issue was triggered while converting a GIF file to an HDF file.

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
21eef8a98ee6949c69d79c6c4d87fc8e4e38dc29
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.10.3"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

Other
before_removing_docs
before_removing_fphdf5
before_removing_mpiposix_vfd
before_removing_tbbt_code
before_signed_unsigned_changes
hdf5-1_0_0
hdf5-1_0_0-alpha2
hdf5-1_0_1
hdf5-1_10_1
hdf5-1_10_2
hdf5-1_10_3
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-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_9-start
proto1
r1_1beta1
vms_last_support_trunk

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17436.json"