High severity8.6NVD Advisory· Published Nov 18, 2016· Updated May 6, 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.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
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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