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CVE-2017-17505

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the function H5O_pline_decode in the H5Opline.c file in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

Affected products

• HDF5: 1.10.1

References

• https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/readme.md
• https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/readme.md

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