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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 102402e..72cab28 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -631,6 +631,18 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release Library ------- + - Fixed the decoding of an attribute message to prevent a segfault by h52gif + + The tool h52gif produced a segfault when the size of an attribute + message was corrupted and caused a buffer overflow. + + The problem was fixed by verifying the attribute message's size + against the buffer size before accessing the buffer. h52gif was + also fixed to display the failure instead of silently exiting + after the segfault was eliminated. + + (BMR - 2020/6/19, HDFFV-10591) + - Improved peformance when creating a large number of small datasets by retrieving default property values from the API context instead of doing skip list searches. |