Summary: | <sci-libs/hdf5-1.8.18: H5T_COMPOUND heap buffer overflow (CVE-2016-4333) | ||||||
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Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Ian Zimmerman <nobrowser> | ||||
Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> | ||||
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||||||
Severity: | normal | CC: | sci | ||||
Priority: | Normal | ||||||
Version: | unspecified | ||||||
Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
Whiteboard: | B2 [glsa cve] | ||||||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |||||
Bug Depends on: | 601404 | ||||||
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Description
Ian Zimmerman
2016-12-02 00:44:55 UTC
CVE-2016-4333 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-4333): The HDF5 1.8.16 library allocating space for the array using a value from the file has an impact within the loop for initializing said array allowing a value within the file to modify the loop's terminator. Due to this, an aggressor can cause the loop's index to point outside the bounds of the array when initializing it. Created attachment 454950 [details, diff]
hdf5-1.8.17-CVE-2016-4333.patch
Attached is a patch that applies to 1.8.17 with an additional check. This should be combined with the fix for #601408.
This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201701-13 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13 by GLSA coordinator Thomas Deutschmann (whissi). |