CVE-2016-4331

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4331
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4331.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4331
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-11-18T20:59:02.240Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:44:24.093554Z
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

When decoding data out of a dataset encoded with the H5Z_NBIT decoding, the HDF5 1.8.16 library will fail to ensure that the precision is within the bounds of the size 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-2016-4331.json"