Bug 1105591 – VUL-1: CVE-2018-15671: hdf5: An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library. Excessive stackconsumption has been detected in the function H5P__get_cb() in H5Pint.c duringan attempted parse of a crafted HDF file. This results in de

Bug 1105591 - (CVE-2018-15671) VUL-1: CVE-2018-15671: hdf5: An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library. Excessive stackconsumption has been detected in the function H5P__get_cb() in H5Pint.c duringan attempted parse of a crafted HDF file. This results in de

(CVE-2018-15671)
Summary:	VUL-1: CVE-2018-15671: hdf5: An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 l...

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Classification:	Novell Products
Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P4 - Low Severity: Normal
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Assigned To:	HPC Issue Tracker
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/213154/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3:SUSE:CVE-2018-15671:5.5:(AV:L...
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Blocks:	1101742
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Reported:	2018-08-22 05:52 UTC by Marcus Meissner
Modified:	2022-09-07 11:18 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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stackoverflow_H5P__get_cb (18.09 KB, application/octet-stream) 2018-08-22 05:58 UTC, Marcus Meissner	Details
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Description Marcus Meissner 2018-08-22 05:52:39 UTC

CVE-2018-15671

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library. Excessive stack
consumption has been detected in the function H5P__get_cb() in H5Pint.c during
an attempted parse of a crafted HDF file. This results in denial of service.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2018-15671
http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-15671/
https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5#stack-overflow---stackoverflow_h5p__get_cb

Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2018-08-22 05:58:53 UTC

Created attachment 780370 [details]
stackoverflow_H5P__get_cb

QA REPRODUCER:

h5dump stackoverflow_H5P__get_cb

will only terminate after running long

(endless recursion exhausting stack)

Comment 3 Egbert Eich 2022-05-05 10:41:57 UTC

No upstream fix is available, yet.

Comment 4 Egbert Eich 2022-09-05 12:37:47 UTC

This is not really a vulnerability.
- This problem happens only with a hand-crafted file.
- The stack will grow in size until the program is terminated, however no illegal or   
  'out-of-bound' accesses can be detected.
- Problem can be mitigated by setting an appropriate ulimit when processing hdf5 
  files from uncertain origin.

Comment 5 Gabriele Sonnu 2022-09-07 11:18:35 UTC

SUSE will not provide a fix for this issue since the risk to our customers posed by this is negligible.