CVE-2018-16438

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    CVE-2018-16438

    Published: 4 Sept 2018Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is an out of bounds read in H5L_extern_query at H5Lexternal.c.

    References: https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/h5stat

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- b8c6b68c35fa2be23ef488a1d81097ff3ed55000
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.8.20

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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