Bug 1202620 (CVE-2022-25942)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2022-25942: hdf5: out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the gif2h5 functionality
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Alexander Bergmann <abergmann>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	HPC Issue Tracker <hpc-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	abergmann, eich, gabriele.sonnu, security-team
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/340423/
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Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Alexander Bergmann 2022-08-23 06:43:23 UTC

CVE-2022-25942

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the gif2h5 functionality of HDF5
Group libhdf5 1.10.4. A specially-crafted GIF file can lead to code execution.
An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2022-25942
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-25942
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1486

Comment 1 Alexander Bergmann 2022-08-23 07:10:04 UTC

From the version numbers all SUSE related packages seam to be clear.

SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:GA:Products:Update/hdf5  hdf5-1.10.8
SUSE:SLE-15:Update/hdf5                  hdf5-1.10.8
SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update/hdf5              hdf5-1.10.8
SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update/hdf5              hdf5-1.10.8
SUSE:SLE-15-SP3:Update/hdf5              hdf5-1.10.8
SUSE:SLE-15-SP4:GA/hdf5                  hdf5-1.10.8


There is no direct reference to a patch or git commit. We will leave the bug report open to check the correctness.

Comment 4 Gabriele Sonnu 2022-09-07 07:19:13 UTC

Not affected since we don't ship the GIF tools. Closing.