Security advisory

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  "id": "ba950d7f9dc062ee70379c128f4b01af10d59bf645588c4d2645ad444fae766a",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-17437",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-17437",
    "summary": "Memory leak in the H5O_dtype_decode_helper() function in H5Odtype.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HDF5 file.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-17437",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-17437",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-17437"
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/hdfgroup/hdf5",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "21eef8a98ee6949c69d79c6c4d87fc8e4e38dc29"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.10.3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "hdf5-1_10_2",
            "hdf5-1_10_3",
            "hdf5-1_10_1",
            "vms_last_support_trunk",
            "before_removing_mpiposix_vfd",
            "hdf5-1_9-start",
            "hdf5-1_8_0-beta5",
            "hdf5-1_8_0-beta4",
            "hdf5-1_8_0-beta3",
            "hdf5-1_8_0-beta2",
            "hdf5-1_8_0-beta1",
            "hdf5-1_8_0-alpha4",
            "hdf5-1_8_0-alpha3",
            "hdf5-1_8_0-alpha2",
            "before_removing_fphdf5",
            "before_removing_docs",
            "before_removing_tbbt_code",
            "before_signed_unsigned_changes",
            "hdf5-1_6_2",
            "hdf5-1_6_1",
            "hdf5-1_6_0",
            "hdf5-1_4_0",
            "hdf5-1_4_1",
            "hdf5-1_3_1",
            "hdf5-1_3_0",
            "hdf5-1_2_1",
            "hdf5-1_2_0beta",
            "hdf5-1_2_0-beta1-update2",
            "hdf5-1_2_0",
            "hdf5-1_0_1",
            "hdf5-1_0_0",
            "r1_1beta1",
            "hdf5-1_0_0-alpha2",
            "proto1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17437.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:31.289917350Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00009.html",
        "https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln5#memory-leak-in-h5o_dtype_decode_helper"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-17437",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 432757,
  "published_at": "2018-09-24T14:29:01.043+00:00"
}