CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-17432
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
A NULL pointer dereference in H5O_sdspace_encode() in H5Osdspace.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HDF5 file.
Affected configurations
• hdfgroup hdf5 (<= 1.10.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln6#null-pointer-dereference-in-h5o_sdspace_encode Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln6#null-pointer-dereference-in-h5o_sdspace_encode Exploit, Third Party Advisory