Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 10, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-13870
CVE-2018-13870
Description
An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function H5O_link_decode in H5Olink.c.
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Affected products
33- osv-coords32 versionspkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20HPC%2012pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20HPC%2012pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi1-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20HPC%2012pkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi2-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/suse-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/suse-hpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg: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
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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