CVE-2021-45833

NameCVE-2021-45833
DescriptionA Stack-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability exists in HDF5 1.13.1-1 via the H5D__create_chunk_file_map_hyper function in /hdf5/src/H5Dchunk.c, which causes a Denial of Service (context-dependent).
SourceCVE (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 PackageReleaseVersionStatus
hdf5 (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.8.13+docs-15+deb8u1vulnerable
stretch (lts), stretch1.10.0-patch1+docs-3+deb9u2vulnerable
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)1.10.4+repack-10+deb10u1vulnerable
bullseye1.10.6+repack-4+deb11u1vulnerable
bookworm1.10.8+repack1-1vulnerable
trixie1.10.10+repack-5vulnerable
sid1.14.5+repack-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
hdf5source(unstable)1.14.5+repack-1unimportant

Notes

https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/1313
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x57p-jwp6-4v79
https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/pull/2241
https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/commit/4e0277c35a5a6e8eb84058a905efa06bb3915985
Negligible security impact, malicous scientific data has more issues than a crash...

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