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authorBinh-Minh Ribler <bmribler@hdfgroup.org>2020-07-29 00:08:19 (GMT)
committerBinh-Minh Ribler <bmribler@hdfgroup.org>2020-07-29 00:08:19 (GMT)
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Merge pull request #2711 in HDFFV/hdf5 from bmr-HDFFV-11120 to develop
Fix HDFFV-11120 and HDFFV-11121 (CVE-2018-13870 and CVE-2018-13869) * commit '707e30c6be1954c0027374124207e46caae68cbc': Fixed typos in error messages. Fix HDFFV-11120 and HDFFV-11121 (CVE-2018-13870 and CVE-2018-13869)
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@@ -656,6 +656,17 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release
Library
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+ - Fixed issues CVE-2018-13870 and CVE-2018-13869
+
+ When a buffer overflow occurred because a name length was corrupted
+ and became very large, h5dump crashed on memory access violation.
+
+ A check for reading pass the end of the buffer was added to multiple
+ locations to prevent the crashes and h5dump now simply fails with an
+ error message when this error condition occurs.
+
+ (BMR - 2020/7/22, HDFFV-11120 and HDFFV-11121)
+
- Fixed the segmentation fault when reading attributes with multiple threads
It was reported that the reading of attributes with variable length string