CVE-2018-17234

medium

Description

Memory leak in the H5O__chunk_deserialize() function in H5Ocache.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.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00009.html

https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln3#memory-leak---h5o__chunk_deserialize_memory_leak

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-09-20

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H