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author | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2018-03-06 00:08:28 (GMT) |
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committer | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2018-03-06 00:08:28 (GMT) |
commit | b61c93acb3c5d50d379950f6e3de5040c71dd041 (patch) | |
tree | b0681c4b629fb6a44dc3df6d4f7f174ca7cc142d /release_docs/RELEASE.txt | |
parent | 302053f978e38a8d4306a7c1233cdf8fd2ec28dd (diff) | |
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index d52f6a5..199265c 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -232,6 +232,29 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.1 release (DER - 2017/11/21, HDFFV-10330) + - If an HDF5 file contains a filter pipeline message with a 'number of + filters' field that exceeds the maximum number of allowed filters, + the error handling code will attempt to dereference a NULL pointer. + + This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17505. + + NOTE: The HDF5 C library cannot produce such a file. This condition + should only occur in a corrupt (or deliberately altered) file + or a file created by third-party software. + + This problem arose because the error handling code assumed that + the 'number of filters' field implied that a dynamic array of that + size had already been created and that the cleanup code should + iterate over that array and clean up each element's resources. If + an error occurred before the array has been allocated, this will + not be true. + + This has been changed so that the number of filters is set to + zero on errors. Additionally, the filter array traversal in the + error handling code now requires that the filter array not be NULL. + + (DER - 2018/02/06, HDFFV-10354) + - If an HDF5 file contains a filter pipeline message which contains a 'number of filters' field that exceeds the actual number of filters in the message, the HDF5 C library will read off the end of @@ -251,6 +274,21 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.1 release (DER - 2018/02/26, HDFFV-10355) + - If an HDF5 file contains a malformed compound type which contains + a member of size zero, a division by zero error will occur while + processing the type. + + This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17508. + + NOTE: The HDF5 C library cannot produce such a file. This condition + should only occur in a corrupt (or deliberately altered) file + or a file created by third-party software. + + Checking for zero before dividing fixes the problem. Instead of the + division by zero, the normal HDF5 error handling is invoked. + + (DER - 2018/02/26, HDFFV-10357) + Configuration ------------- - CMake |