High severity8.6NVD Advisory· Published Nov 18, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-4330
CVE-2016-4330
Description
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.
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4- www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0176/nvdExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/94414nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13nvd
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