VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-17509

CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability1.51%
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:H/I:H/A:H

Description

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds write vulnerability in the function H5G__ent_decode_vec in H5Gcache.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash or possibly have unspecified other impact someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references