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| author | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2018-05-11 23:51:03 (GMT) |
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| committer | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2018-05-11 23:51:03 (GMT) |
| commit | 2636f401ba236e99adda4cc50fb89bebbe0b73fd (patch) | |
| tree | 99452a08724f938b10855b906840bd830d7124e8 /release_docs | |
| parent | 00f42b152636696f59adb41c527424196c747e2c (diff) | |
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Moved a fix for HDFFV-10358 (CVE-2017-17509) from develop to 1.8.
This was done manually due to the cache differences between
1.8 and develop.
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 30b148a..ad06d40 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -209,6 +209,23 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.20 (DER - 2018/02/26, HDFFV-10357) + - If an HDF5 file contains a malformed symbol table node that declares + it contains more symbols than it actually contains, the library + can run off the end of the metadata cache buffer while processing + the symbol table node. + + This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17509. + + 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. + + Performing bounds checks on the buffer while processing fixes the + problem. Instead of the segmentation fault, the normal HDF5 error + handling is invoked. + + (DER - 2018/03/12, HDFFV-10358) + Configuration ------------- - CMake |