Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function H5FD_sec2_read in H5FDsec2.c, related to HDmemset.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-13874
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function H5FD_sec2_read in H5FDsec2.c, related to HDmemset.
osv:CVE-2018-13874
Complete source record
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