Out of Bounds Read Vulnerability in H5Opline_pline_decode Function in HDF5 1.10.1

CVE-2017-17506 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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