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CVE-2018-17433

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow in ReadGifImageDesc() in gifread.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HDF5 file. This issue was triggered while converting a GIF file to an HDF file.

Affected products

• HDF5: through 1.10.3

References

• https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln8#heap-overflow-in-readgifimagedesc
• https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln8#heap-overflow-in-readgifimagedesc

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