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| author | Dana Robinson <43805+derobins@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-11-10 01:03:55 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-11-10 01:03:55 (GMT) |
| commit | a8942c7413e939344b1244f041b72def191718f2 (patch) | |
| tree | 4521a16667e138eadaa37c0d5be67779e5b2d9a7 /release_docs | |
| parent | d93c6fae4313c497ca1383d1aef24203a29b5087 (diff) | |
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Adds a release note for PR #2210 (CVE-2019-8396) (#2247)
* Adds a release note for PR #2210 (CVE-2019-8396)
* Capitalization issue fixed
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 47c9730..1b6999d 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -89,6 +89,17 @@ New Features Library: -------- + - Fix for CVE-2019-8396 + + Malformed HDF5 files may have truncated content which does not match + the expected size. When H5O__pline_decode() attempts to decode these it + may read past the end of the allocated space leading to heap overflows + as bounds checking is incomplete. + + The fix ensures each element is within bounds before reading. + + (2022/11/09 - HDFFV-10712, CVE-2019-8396, GitHub #2209) + - Removal of memory allocation sanity checks feature This feature added heap canaries and statistics tracking for internal |