High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 4, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-16438

Description

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is an out of bounds read in H5L_extern_query at H5Lexternal.c.

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Affected products

HDF/HDF5llm-fuzzy
Range: =1.8.20
osv-coords60 versions
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< 1.10.8-150300.4.6.1+ 59 more
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- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150400.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150100.7.7.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150100.7.7.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150200.8.7.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-3.15.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150300.4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150400.3.3.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150400.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-3.15.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150300.4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150400.3.3.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150400.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150300.4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150400.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150300.4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.8-150400.3.3.1

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References

github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/h5statnvdExploitThird Party Advisory

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