Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 11, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-17506

Description

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds read vulnerability in the function H5Opline_pline_decode in H5Opline.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

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Affected products

Hdfgroup/Hdf5
cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: >=1.8.0,<=1.10.1
HDF/HDF5llm-fuzzy
Range: <=1.10.1
osv-coords32 versions
pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20HPC%2012 pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20HPC%2012 pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi1-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20HPC%2012 pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/suse-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/suse-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/suse-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20HPC%2012
< 1.10.8-150100.7.4.3+ 31 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150100.7.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150100.7.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150200.8.4.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150200.8.4.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150000.8.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150000.8.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-3.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150100.7.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150100.7.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150200.8.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150200.8.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150000.8.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150000.8.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150100.7.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150100.7.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150200.8.4.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150200.8.4.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150000.8.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150000.8.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-3.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-3.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150100.7.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150100.7.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150200.8.4.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150200.8.4.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150000.8.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150000.8.4.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150200.8.4.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150200.8.4.2
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.20220206.0c6b168-150000.11.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.20220206.0c6b168-150000.11.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.20220206.0c6b168-5.2

cvss	0.423
epss	0.001
exploit	0.000
kev	0.000
patch	0.000
ransomware	0.000

CVE-2017-17506

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