CVE-2020-10811

Name
CVE-2020-10811
Description
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

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

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* hdf5 >= None <= 1.12.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
hdf5 3.13-community 1.12.0-r0 Holger Jaekel <holger.jaekel@gmx.de> possibly vulnerable
hdf5 3.14-community 1.12.1-r0 Holger Jaekel <holger.jaekel@gmx.de> fixed