Bug 1827478 (CVE-2020-10811)

Summary:	CVE-2020-10811 hdf5: Heap-based buffer over-read in function H5O__layout_decode() in H5Olayout.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	anto.trande, bmontgom, c.david86, dakingun, dbecker, eparis, hbrock, igor.raits, jburrell, jjoyce, jokerman, jschluet, jslagle, kbasil, lhh, lpeer, mburns, nstielau, orion, rhos-maint, scitech-bugs, sclewis, slinaber, sponnaga
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Bug Depends On:	1827481, 1827480
Bug Blocks:	1827484

Description Pedro Sampaio 2020-04-24 03:23:20 UTC

An issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0. A heap-based buffer over-read exists in the function H5O__layout_decode() located in H5Olayout.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service. 

References:

https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_2
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/heap-buffer-overflow-in-h5olayout-c-hdf5-1-13-0/
https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txt

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2020-04-24 03:26:09 UTC

Created hdf5 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1827481]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1827480]

Comment 3 Mark Cooper 2020-04-29 04:22:12 UTC

HDF5 is an unused part of RHOSP, it is a loose requirement and included but not used. 

As OpenShift 4.3 included OpenStack components briefly, HDF5 was present.

As such marking OpenStack and OpenShift as affected/wontfix.

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-04-29 04:31:53 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-10811

Comment 6 Joshua Padman 2020-04-30 00:38:36 UTC

Statement:

HDF5 is included as part of a loose dependency trail from python3-hardware package. There is a very low likelihood that an attacker would be able to exploit this vulnerability in a meaningful way in both OpenShift and OpenStack

In OpenShift 4.3, hdf5 is included in the container openshift/ironic-hardware-inventory-recorder-image, the dependency tail is: python3-hardware -> python3-pandas -> python3-tables -> hdf5