CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-4332

8.6 HIGH Published 2016-11-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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-20

Description

The library's failure to check if certain message types support a particular flag, the HDF5 1.8.16 library will cast the structure to an alternative structure and then assign to fields that aren't supported by the message type and the library will write outside the bounds of the heap buffer. This can lead to code execution under the context of the library.

Affected configurations

• hdfgroup hdf5 1.8.16

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References