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authorDana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org>2018-03-13 17:10:14 (GMT)
committerlrknox <lrknox>2018-05-11 19:06:40 (GMT)
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Added a "won't fix" RELEASE.txt entry for HDFFV-10356.
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@@ -174,6 +174,26 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.20
(DER - 2018/02/26, HDFFV-10355)
+ - If an HDF5 file contains a malformed compound datatype with a
+ suitably large offset, the type conversion code can run off
+ the end of the type conversion buffer, causing a segmentation
+ fault.
+
+ This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17507.
+
+ 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.
+
+ THE HDF GROUP WILL NOT FIX THIS BUG AT THIS TIME
+
+ Fixing this problem would involve updating the publicly visible
+ H5T_conv_t function pointer typedef and versioning the API calls
+ which use it. We normally only modify the public API during
+ major releases, so this bug will not be fixed at this time.
+
+ (DER - 2018/02/26, HDFFV-10356)
+
- 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.