CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-17433

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-09-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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-787

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow in ReadGifImageDesc() in gifread.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HDF5 file. This issue was triggered while converting a GIF file to an HDF file.

Affected configurations

• hdfgroup hdf5 (<= 1.10.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References