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CVE-2018-17437

Date: September 23, 2018

Memory leak in the H5O_dtype_decode_helper() function in H5Odtype.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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (5)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00009.html
https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln5#memory-leak-in-h5o_dtype_decode_helper
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17437
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-17437
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-17437

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

CWE-772

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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