CVE-2018-17234

MEDIUM

HDF HDF5 <1.10.3 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

Memory leak in the H5O__chunk_deserialize() function in H5Ocache.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.

References (2)

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln3#memory-leak---h5o__chunk_deserialize_memory_leak

View Exploit ZIP pw:eip

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00009.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0013

EPSS Percentile 32.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-772

Status published

Affected Products (1)

hdfgroup/hdf5 < 1.10.3

Timeline

Published Sep 20, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026