| Name | CVE-2018-17234 |
| Description | Memory leak in the H5O__chunk_deserialize() function in H5Ocache.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HDF5 file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3522-1 |
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 | fixed |
| 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 | buster | 1.10.4+repack-10+deb10u1 | | DLA-3522-1 | |
| hdf5 | source | (unstable) | 1.10.6+repack-2 | low | | |
Notes
[stretch] - hdf5 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - hdf5 <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln3#memory-leak---h5o__chunk_deserialize_memory_leak
https://jira.hdfgroup.org/browse/HDFFV-10578 (not public)
does not appear in 1.10.5 release notes, but fixed in
https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/commits/f4138013dbc6851e968ea3d37b32776538ef306b