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CVE-2018-11205 json

A out of bounds read was discovered in H5VM_memcpyvv in H5VM.c in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library.

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-3245

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A out of bounds read was discovered in H5VM_memcpyvv in H5VM.c in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library. It could allow a remote denial of service or information disclosure attack.

Patch / fix

  • hdf5 Debian 14, Debian 13 1.14.5+repack-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11205

  • pmix SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP5, SLE Module for HPC 15 SP6 +6 more 3.2.3-150300.3.10.1
  • mpich SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 4.0.2-150500.3.2.1
  • mpich SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 4.1.2-150600.3.2.1
  • mvapich2 SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 2.3.7-150500.3.2.1
  • mvapich2 SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 2.3.7-150600.9.2.1
  • openmpi4 SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 4.1.4-150500.3.2.1
  • openmpi4 SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 4.1.6-150600.3.2.1
  • mpich-ofi SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 4.0.2-150500.3.2.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:3144-1SUSE-SU-2024:2195-1SUSE-SU-2024:2105-1SUSE-SU-2022:3829-1SUSE-SU-2022:3828-1SUSE-SU-2022:3827-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2018-11205 updated cvss 3.3

hdf5: out of bounds read in H5VM_memcpyvv in H5VM.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 hdf5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) hdf5 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) hdf5 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) hdf5 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) hdf5 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) hdf5
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) hdf5
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/Twi1ight/fuzzing-pocs/tree/master/hdf5 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

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Sources

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