CVE-2019-8396

Name	CVE-2019-8396
Description	A buffer overflow in H5O__layout_encode in H5Olayout.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.4 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HDF5 file. This issue was triggered while repacking an HDF5 file, aka "Invalid write of size 2."
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	undetermined
	bullseye	1.10.6+repack-4+deb11u1	undetermined
	bookworm, sid	1.10.8+repack1-1	undetermined

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

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

Notes

https://github.com/magicSwordsMan/PAAFS/tree/master/vul4
https://jira.hdfgroup.org/browse/HDFFV-10712
HDFFV-10712 is marked to be closed in a future 1.10.8 upstream release.
Upstream fix was made in May 2021 after the 1.12.0 release (Mar 2020)