CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4331
8.6 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-11-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
When decoding data out of a dataset encoded with the H5Z_NBIT decoding, the HDF5 1.8.16 library will fail to ensure that the precision is within the bounds of the size leading to arbitrary code execution.
Affected configurations
• hdfgroup hdf5 1.8.16
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94411 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0177/ Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94411 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0177/ Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13 security.gentoo.org