Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-10809 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Hdfgroup Hdf5
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
- https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_1
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/heap-overflow-in-decompress-c-hdf5-1-13-0/
- https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
- 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