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| author | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2018-02-27 04:16:13 (GMT) |
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| committer | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2018-02-27 04:16:13 (GMT) |
| commit | ce005900d6ad539cc7556ab225b771d24632f4f1 (patch) | |
| tree | fe1eedb554b5024f911ab39994ccd4db8e63687d /release_docs | |
| parent | 9ea358d971ae45698dba6794583a39c4023085ad (diff) | |
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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 |