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CVE-2019-8396 (GCVE-0-2019-8396)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-02-17 06:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 21:17
VLAI
Summary
A buffer overflow in H5O__layout_encode in H5Olayout.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.4 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HDF5 file. This issue was triggered while repacking an HDF5 file, aka "Invalid write of size 2."
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2019-02-16 00:00
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