CVE-2018-17439
moderate-risk
Published 2018-09-24
An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.3 library. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function H5S_extent_get_dims() in H5S.c. Specifically, this issue occurs while converting an HDF5 file to a GIF file.
Do I need to act?
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0.69% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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6
CVSS 6.5/10
Medium
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (1)
Affected Vendors
31
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
24/34 · High
Exploitability
2/34 · Minimal
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal