CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-11204

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: May 16, 2018 | Modified: Jun 15, 2018
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in H5O__chunk_deserialize in H5Ocache.c in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library. It could allow a remote denial of service attack.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Hdf5 Hdfgroup 1.10.2 (including) 1.10.2 (including)
Hdf5 Ubuntu bionic *
Hdf5 Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Hdf5 Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Hdf5 Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Hdf5 Ubuntu trusty *
Hdf5 Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Hdf5 Ubuntu upstream *
Hdf5 Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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