CVE-2016-4331 (GCVE-0-2016-4331)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-11-18 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:25
VLAI
Summary
When decoding data out of a dataset encoded with the H5Z_NBIT decoding, the HDF5 1.8.16 library will fail to ensure that the precision is within the bounds of the size leading to arbitrary code execution.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
certcc CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 42/100 over 158 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-20… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94411 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2016-11-17 00:00
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