CVE-2020-10809

medium

Description

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

https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/heap-overflow-in-decompress-c-hdf5-1-13-0/

https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_1

https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-03-22

Updated: 2020-04-30

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: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium