Bug 1579960 (CVE-2018-11206)

Summary: CVE-2018-11206 hdf5: out of bounds read in H5O_fill_new_decode and H5O_fill_old_decode in H5Ofill.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: anto.trande, apevec, caolanm, c.david86, chrisw, dakingun, hbrock, jjoyce, jschluet, jslagle, lhh, lpeer, markmc, mburns, orion, rbryant, sclewis, slinaber, tdecacqu
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An out-of-bounds read flaw was discovered in H5O_fill_new_decode and H5O_fill_old_decode in H5Ofill.c in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library. This could allow a remote denial of service or information disclosure attack.
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Bug Depends On: 1579947, 1579949, 1579964, 1584436, 1584437, 1584438, 1584439, 1584440, 1584441    
Bug Blocks: 1579966    
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-05-18 20:08:49 UTC 
A flaw was found in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library. An out of bounds read was discovered in H5O_fill_new_decode and H5O_fill_old_decode in H5Ofill.c. It could allow a remote denial of service or information disclosure attack.


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https://github.com/Twi1ight/fuzzing-pocs/tree/master/hdf5
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-05-18 20:15:46 UTC 
Created hdf5 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1579947]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1579949]
Comment 3 Caolan McNamara 2018-05-21 12:34:04 UTC 
Created attachment 1439603 [details]
a plausible fix