High severity8.6NVD Advisory· Published Nov 18, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-4331
CVE-2016-4331
Description
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.
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References
4- www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0177/nvdExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/94411nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13nvd
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