Bug 1524909 (CVE-2017-17507) - CVE-2017-17507 hdf5: Out-of-bounds read in the H5T_conv_struct_opt function
Summary: CVE-2017-17507 hdf5: Out-of-bounds read in the H5T_conv_struct_opt function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-17507
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1524917 1524918 1524919 1530408
Blocks: 1524924
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-12-12 09:59 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:33:57 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-12-12 09:59:16 UTC 
In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds read vulnerability in the function H5T_conv_struct_opt in H5Tconv.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

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https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/hdf5
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-12-12 10:03:10 UTC 
Created hdf5 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1524917]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1524918]
Affects: openshift-1 [bug 1524919]
Comment 2 Joshua Padman 2017-12-20 04:11:11 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Whilst the package shipped with Red Hat OpenStack contains the vulnerable code, the packages that use HDF5 do not expose the vulnerable functionality.
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