CVE-2018-15671

Name	CVE-2018-15671
Description	An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library. Excessive stack consumption has been detected in the function H5P__get_cb() in H5Pint.c during an attempted parse of a crafted HDF file. This results in denial of service.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, 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)	buster	1.10.4+repack-10	vulnerable
	bullseye	1.10.6+repack-4+deb11u1	vulnerable
	bookworm, sid	1.10.8+repack-1	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
hdf5	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant

Notes

https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5#stack-overflow---stackoverflow_h5p__get_cb
https://jira.hdfgroup.org/browse/HDFFV-10557
Negligible security impact