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CVE-2018-17439

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• 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: 2018-09-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.3 library. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function H5S_extent_get_dims() in H5S.c. Specifically, this issue occurs while converting an HDF5 file to a GIF file.

Affected products

• HDF5: 1.10.3

References

• https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln5#stack-overflow-in-h5s_extent_get_dims
• https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln5#stack-overflow-in-h5s_extent_get_dims

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