CVE-2017-17505: Hdfgroup HDF5

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Hdfgroup HDF5: version 1.10.1 only

Published 2017-12-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.