Bug 1601480 (CVE-2018-13872)

Summary:	CVE-2018-13872 hdf5: heap-based buffer overflow in the function H5G_ent_decode in H5Gent.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	anto.trande, apevec, caolanm, c.david86, chrisw, dakingun, eglynn, hbrock, igor.raits, jjoyce, jschluet, jslagle, lhh, lpeer, lsvaty, markmc, mburns, mgarciac, orion, pgrist, rbryant, sclewis, slinaber, tdecacqu
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Bug Depends On:	1607609, 1607610, 1607611, 1608144, 1608145, 1608146, 1608147, 1608148, 1608149, 1608150
Bug Blocks:	1600994

Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-07-16 13:16:26 UTC

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function H5G_ent_decode in H5Gent.c.

References:

https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5

Comment 1 Joshua Padman 2018-07-25 04:07:34 UTC

Created hdf5 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1607610]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1607609]