CVE-2018-17437

Memory leak in the H5O_dtype_decode_helper() function in H5Odtype.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HDF5 file.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-09-24

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-772

Affected products

• Hdf5 (Hdfgroup)

References

• https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln5#memory-leak-in-h5o_dtype_decode_helper
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00009.html