CVE-2017-17509

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CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

EPSS

2%p73

Published

Dec 11, 2017 (Dec 11, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds write vulnerability in the function H5G__ent_decode_vec in H5Gcache.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash or possibly have unspecified other impact someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

Vendors: hdfgroup
Products: hdf5
Weakness: CWE-787
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.5%)

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