Bug 1601473 (CVE-2018-13871) - CVE-2018-13871 hdf5: heap-based buffer overflow in the function H5FL_blk_malloc in H5FL.c
Summary: CVE-2018-13871 hdf5: heap-based buffer overflow in the function H5FL_blk_mall...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-13871
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1607609 1607610 1607611 1608144 1608145 1608146 1608147 1608148 1608149 1608150
Blocks: 1600994
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Reported: 2018-07-16 13:07 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-10-25 09:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-25 09:47:25 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-07-16 13:07:24 UTC 
An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function H5FL_blk_malloc in H5FL.c.

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https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5
Comment 1 Joshua Padman 2018-07-25 04:06:57 UTC 
Created hdf5 tracking bugs for this issue:

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