github - ghsa-349c-4hpx-25pr

ghsa-349c-4hpx-25pr

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 00:27

Modified

2025-04-12 13:06

Severity ?

8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

The library's failure to check if certain message types support a particular flag, the HDF5 1.8.16 library will cast the structure to an alternative structure and then assign to fields that aren't supported by the message type and the library will write outside the bounds of the heap buffer. This can lead to code execution under the context of the library.

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  "modified": "2025-04-12T13:06:33Z",
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CVE-2016-4332 (GCVE-0-2016-4332)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2016-11-18 20:00

Modified

2024-08-06 00:25

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

The library's failure to check if certain message types support a particular flag, the HDF5 1.8.16 library will cast the structure to an alternative structure and then assign to fields that aren't supported by the message type and the library will write outside the bounds of the heap buffer. This can lead to code execution under the context of the library.

References

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URL

Tags

	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94417	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
	http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0178/	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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