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
2026-07-08T11:49:57.287887Z
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
28cd632b8d7a280b44cc4d2e18a01a0319d0275d
Last affected
28cd632b8d7a280b44cc4d2e18a01a0319d0275d
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:1.8.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.8.16"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.8.16"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.8.16
Other
hdf5-1_8_16

Database specific

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