Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-17509 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Hdfgroup Hdf5 1.10.1

047910
CVSS 6.8 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL

Summary

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds write vulnerability in the function H5G__ent_decode_vec in H5Gcache.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash or possibly have unspecified other impact someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Hdfgroup
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)