CVE-2020-10809

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10809
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-10809.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-10809
Downstream
Related
Published
2020-03-22T18:15:14.217Z
Modified
2026-05-28T04:04:42.465224878Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0. A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the function Decompress() located in decompress.c. It can be triggered by sending a crafted file to the gif2h5 binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

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
c51aa323fcda89b1f116cdd2c28a8ce0a229e29a
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.12.0"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "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_12_0-alpha0
hdf5-1_12_0-alpha1
hdf5-1_12_0-initial
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
hdf5_1_12-initial
proto1
r1_1beta1
vms_last_support_trunk

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-10809.json"