CVE-2016-4330

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4330
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4330.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4330
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-11-18T20:59:00.317Z
Modified
2026-04-10T03:49:59.048057Z
Severity
  • 8.6 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/hdfgroup/hdf5

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/hdfgroup/hdf5
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
28cd632b8d7a280b44cc4d2e18a01a0319d0275d
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.8.16"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
before_removing_docs
before_removing_fphdf5
before_removing_tbbt_code
before_signed_unsigned_changes
hdf5-1_0_0
hdf5-1_0_0-alpha2
hdf5-1_0_1
hdf5-1_2_0
hdf5-1_2_0-beta1-update2
hdf5-1_2_0beta
hdf5-1_2_1
hdf5-1_3_0
hdf5-1_3_1
hdf5-1_4_0
hdf5-1_4_1
hdf5-1_6_0
hdf5-1_6_1
hdf5-1_6_2
hdf5-1_8_0
hdf5-1_8_0-alpha2
hdf5-1_8_0-alpha3
hdf5-1_8_0-alpha4
hdf5-1_8_0-beta1
hdf5-1_8_0-beta2
hdf5-1_8_0-beta3
hdf5-1_8_0-beta4
hdf5-1_8_0-beta5
hdf5-1_8_1
hdf5-1_8_16
hdf5-1_8_2
hdf5-1_8_3
hdf5_1_8_15_precodefreeze_final_commit
proto1
r1_1beta1
vms_last_support_1_8

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4330.json"