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CVE-2016-4330

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-11-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

In the HDF5 1.8.16 library's failure to check if the number of dimensions for an array read from the file is within the bounds of the space allocated for it, a heap-based buffer overflow will occur, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• HDF5: 1.8.16

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94414
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0176/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94414
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0176/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13

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