fkie_cve-2016-4331
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2016-11-18 20:59
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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
cret@cert.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727
cret@cert.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94411
cret@cert.orghttp://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0177/Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
cret@cert.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94411
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0177/Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
hdfgroup hdf5 1.8.16


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