HDF5 Library Memory Leak Vulnerability

CVE-2018-17437 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Memory leak in the H5O_dtype_decode_helper() function in H5Odtype.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HDF5 file.

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