CVE-2017-17509

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Published 2017-12-11 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

6.8

VIR risk

8.8

Description

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds write vulnerability in the function H5G__ent_decode_vec in H5Gcache.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash or possibly have unspecified other impact someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17509

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17509.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.10.4+repack-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.10.4+repack-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.10.4+repack-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.10.4+repack-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.10.4+repack-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
hdfgroup	hdf5	`1.10.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-787

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.