| Name | CVE-2018-15671 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library. Excessive stack consumption has been detected in the function H5P__get_cb() in H5Pint.c during an attempted parse of a crafted HDF file. This results in denial of service. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| hdf5 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.8.13+docs-15+deb8u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1.10.0-patch1+docs-3+deb9u2 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1.10.4+repack-10+deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 1.10.6+repack-4+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1.10.8+repack1-1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 1.10.10+repack-5 | vulnerable |
| sid | 1.14.5+repack-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| hdf5 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5#stack-overflow---stackoverflow_h5p__get_cb
https://jira.hdfgroup.org/browse/HDFFV-10557
Negligible security impact