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CVE-2017-17506

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds read vulnerability in the function H5Opline_pline_decode in H5Opline.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

Affected products

• HDF5: from 1.8.0 through 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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