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| -rw-r--r-- | release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 14 |
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 7c5d245..0a1a3bb 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -354,6 +354,20 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.21 Library ------- + - Fixed the segmentation fault when reading attributes with multiple threads + + It was reported that the reading of attributes with variable length string + datatype will crash with segmentation fault particularly when the number of + threads is high (>16 threads). The problem was due to the file pointer that + was set in the variable length string datatype for the attribute. That file + pointer was already closed when the attribute was accessed. + + The problem was fixed by setting the file pointer to the current opened file pointer + when the attribute was accessed. Similar patch up was done before when reading + dataset with variable length string datatype. + + (VC - 2020/07/13, HDFFV-11080) + - Fixed CVE-2018-17435 The tool h52gif produced a segfault when the size of an attribute |