CVE-2019-8396
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
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."
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-8396
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-8396.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 1.10.5-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | affected | |
| debian | bullseye | affected | |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.14.5+repack-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.14.5+repack-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.14.5+repack-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.