CVE-2017-17509

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    CVE-2017-17509

    Published: 11 Dec 2017Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds write vulnerability in the function H5G__ent_decode_vec in H5Gcache.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash or possibly have unspecified other impact someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

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

    Affected packages

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    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 5f702f40b719a05bf2d271797179b368c5fd39c5
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.10.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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