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CVE-2016-4331

• 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-787

Description

When decoding data out of a dataset encoded with the H5Z_NBIT decoding, the HDF5 1.8.16 library will fail to ensure that the precision is within the bounds of the size 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/94411
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0177/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94411
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0177/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13

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