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CVE-2018-15671

• 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: yes
• Published: 2018-08-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library. Excessive stack consumption has been detected in the function H5P__get_cb() in H5Pint.c during an attempted parse of a crafted HDF file. This results in denial of service.

Affected products

• HDF5: 1.10.2

References

• https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5#stack-overflow---stackoverflow_h5p__get_cb
• https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5#stack-overflow---stackoverflow_h5p__get_cb

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