CVE-2018-17439

Name	CVE-2018-17439
Description	An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.3 library. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function H5S_extent_get_dims() in H5S.c. Specifically, this issue occurs while converting an HDF5 file to a GIF file.
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+repack1-1	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/vuln5#stack-overflow-in-h5s_extent_get_dims
https://jira.hdfgroup.org/browse/HDFFV-10589
Negligible security impact