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CVE-2018-17439 Details

Description

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.3 library. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function H5S_extent_get_dims() in H5S.c. Specifically, this issue occurs while converting an HDF5 file to a GIF file.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:6.5 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln5#stack-overflow-in-h5s_extent_get_dims	CVE	ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln5#stack-overflow-in-h5s_extent_get_dims	[email protected]	ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-787	Out-of-bounds Write	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
hdfgroup hdf5	1.10.3
CPE cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:1.10.3:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 24, 2020	CWE Remap	[email protected]
Nov 9, 2018	Initial Analysis	[email protected]