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| author | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2018-03-05 18:38:20 (GMT) |
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| committer | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2018-03-05 18:38:20 (GMT) |
| commit | 3b0e80c1dcdf664f56829383aa3bc9e8ecc0f2c6 (patch) | |
| tree | 38f2c82884f783f76bf31c1337dca3eb29b919a4 /release_docs | |
| parent | a30da017cc0c0d981d384afad2c074ad5a65d618 (diff) | |
| parent | ce005900d6ad539cc7556ab225b771d24632f4f1 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #911 in HDFFV/hdf5 from ~DEROBINS/hdf5_der:hdffv_10357 to develop
* commit 'ce005900d6ad539cc7556ab225b771d24632f4f1':
Fix for HDFFV-10357 (CVE-2017-17508).
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 4675423..480bb14 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -232,6 +232,21 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.1 release (DER - 2017/11/21, HDFFV-10330) + - 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 |