PT-2018-14028 · Hdf+2 · Hdf5+2

Published 2018-09-24 · Updated 2022-11-01 · CVE-2018-17439

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HDF5 version 1.10.3

Description An issue was discovered in the HDF5 library, where a stack-based buffer overflow occurs in the function H5S extent get dims() in H5S.c. This issue is triggered while converting an HDF5 file to a GIF file.

Recommendations For version 1.10.3, consider applying a patch or fix to address the buffer overflow issue in the H5S extent get dims() function. As a temporary workaround, avoid converting HDF5 files to GIF format until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-17439

ECHO-0BCE-349E-7E21

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_3827-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_3829-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3824-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3825-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3826-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3827-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3828-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3829-1

Affected Products

Debian

Hdf5

Suse

References · 75

• 🔥 https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/h5stat · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln5#stack-overflow-in-h5s_extent_get_dims · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/Twi1ight/fuzzing-pocs/tree/master/hdf5 · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-07698 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3827-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-17439 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17439 · Security Note
• https://safe-surf.ru/specialists/bulletins-nkcki/686197 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3825-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3824-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2024-07117 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17439 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3829-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17439 · Vendor Advisory