CVE-2016-4331 (GCVE-0-2016-4331)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-11-18 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:25
VLAI
Summary
When decoding data out of a dataset encoded with the H5Z_NBIT decoding, the HDF5 1.8.16 library will fail to ensure that the precision is within the bounds of the size leading to arbitrary code execution.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-20… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94411 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2016-11-17 00:00
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