First published: Fri Jul 13 2018(Updated: )
An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function H5O_layout_decode in H5Olayout.c, related to HDmemcpy.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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HDF5 | =1.8.20 |
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CVE-2018-14033 has been classified as a high severity vulnerability due to its potential to cause heap-based buffer over-read.
To remediate CVE-2018-14033, update the HDF5 library to a version later than 1.8.20 that addresses this vulnerability.
CVE-2018-14033 specifically affects the HDF5 library version 1.8.20.
CVE-2018-14033 is categorized as a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability.
The CVE-2018-14033 vulnerability occurs in the function H5O_layout_decode within the file H5Olayout.c.