High severity8.6NVD Advisory· Published Nov 18, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2016-4332
CVE-2016-4332
Description
The library's failure to check if certain message types support a particular flag, the HDF5 1.8.16 library will cast the structure to an alternative structure and then assign to fields that aren't supported by the message type and the library will write outside the bounds of the heap buffer. This can lead to code execution under the context of the library.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
4- www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0178/nvdExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/94417nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13nvd
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