AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
69.8%
In the HDF5 1.8.16 library’s failure to check if the number of dimensions for an array read from the file is within the bounds of the space allocated for it, a heap-based buffer overflow will occur, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.
www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94414
www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0176/
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13