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| author | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2018-03-13 15:13:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2018-03-13 15:13:30 (GMT) |
| commit | f0238d0346cdd2e34200e8b30f5760290a813a05 (patch) | |
| tree | e7836c9071cff001fca2ed5c2a135da02adb5a68 /release_docs | |
| parent | 4aa3784f1289f077a5cd6da2b3391fd8627fcd33 (diff) | |
| parent | b877534a330a201e3b5c51d97daa8e01a5c1cd3a (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #945 in HDFFV/hdf5 from ~DEROBINS/hdf5_der:hdffv_10358 to develop
* commit 'b877534a330a201e3b5c51d97daa8e01a5c1cd3a':
Added a fix for HDFFV-10358.
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 1f4a357..e108ed8 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -377,6 +377,23 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.1 release (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 |