Bug 1620384 (CVE-2018-15671) - CVE-2018-15671 hdf5: Excessive stack consumption in the function H5P__get_cb() resulting in a denial of service
Summary: CVE-2018-15671 hdf5: Excessive stack consumption in the function H5P__get_cb(...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-15671
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1620390 1620389 1623832 1623833 1623834 1623835 1623836 1623837
Blocks: 1620393
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Reported: 2018-08-23 06:24 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-10-25 22:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-25 22:16:58 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-08-23 06:24:40 UTC 
An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library. Excessive stack consumption has been detected in the function H5P__get_cb() in H5Pint.c during an attempted parse of a crafted HDF file. This results in denial of service.

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https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5#stack-overflow---stackoverflow_h5p__get_cb
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-08-23 06:28:19 UTC 
Created hdf5 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1620390]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1620389]
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