VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-17505

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.22%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-12-11
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the function H5O_pline_decode in the H5Opline.c file in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references