| Name | CVE-2018-13870 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function H5O_link_decode in H5Olink.c. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| hdf5 (PTS) | bullseye | 1.10.6+repack-4+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1.10.8+repack1-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.10.10+repack-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| hdf5 | source | (unstable) | 1.10.7+repack-1 | unimportant | | |
Notes
Negligible HDF crash, never properly reported upstrem
https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5
Fixed for 1.10.x in 1.10.7: https://forum.hdfgroup.org/t/release-of-hdf5-1-10-7-newsletter-175-the-hdf-group/7511