CVE-2017-17506

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    CVE-2017-17506

    Published: 11 Dec 2017Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds read vulnerability in the function H5Opline_pline_decode in H5Opline.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

    References: https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/readme.md

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    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 95715a553e8b2bab90e9e4eb6c84074bb52d5dd1
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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