CVE-2018-17439: Hdfgroup HDF5

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

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.3 library. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function H5S_extent_get_dims() in H5S.c. Specifically, this issue occurs while converting an HDF5 file to a GIF file.

Affected products

• Hdfgroup HDF5: version 1.10.3 only

Published 2018-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.