PT-2016-5890 · Hdf+1 · Hdf5+1

Published 2016-11-18 · Updated 2018-04-24 · CVE-2016-4330

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.6

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HDF5 version 1.8.16

Description The issue arises from the failure to check if the number of dimensions for an array read from a file is within the allocated space bounds, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. This could potentially result in arbitrary code execution.

Recommendations For HDF5 version 1.8.16, update to a version that includes a fix for this issue to prevent potential arbitrary code execution.

Exploit

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-4330

DLA-771-1

DSA-3727-1

MGASA-2016-0425

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:1051-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:1056-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_1056-1

Affected Products

Hdf5

Suse

References · 43

• 🔥 http://talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0176 · Exploit
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4330 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0425 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3727-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2018:1051-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4331 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4330 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2018:1056-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4333 · Security Note
• https://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3727-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4330 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4330 · Security Note