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CVE-2020-10811

Date: March 22, 2020

An issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0. A heap-based buffer over-read exists in the function H5O__layout_decode() located in H5Olayout.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (7)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10811

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-10811

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-10811

Url: https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_2

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

Url: https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/heap-buffer-overflow-in-h5olayout-c-hdf5-1-13-0/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-10811

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
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:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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