Medium
Security advisory
In HDF5 1.10.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the function H5O_pline_decode in the H5Opline.c file in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-17505
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In HDF5 1.10.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the function H5O_pline_decode in the H5Opline.c file in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.
osv:CVE-2017-17505
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"summary": "In HDF5 1.10.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the function H5O_pline_decode in the H5Opline.c file in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:51.589862643Z",
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"references": [
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