CVE-2018-17439

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5

Description

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.3 library. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function H5S_extent_get_dims() in H5S.c. Specifically, this issue occurs while converting an HDF5 file to a GIF file.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2018-17439

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2018-09-24T14:29:01

Last Modified Date
2020-08-24T17:37:01

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-787	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/787.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:1.10.3:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
4.3

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
2.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
REQUIRED

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
6.5

Base Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
2.8

Impact Score
3.6

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln5#stack-overflow-in-h5s_extent_get_dims	Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17439
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17439

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 16:30:21				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 12:30:08	2018-09-24T14:29Z	2018-09-24T14:29:01	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-03 12:30:08		2020-08-24T17:37:01	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-03 12:30:08		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated