CVE-2017-17506: Hdfgroup HDF5

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds read vulnerability in the function H5Opline_pline_decode in H5Opline.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

Affected products

• Hdfgroup HDF5: from 1.8.0, up to and including 1.10.1

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