CVE-2016-4330

high

Published 2016-11-18 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

8.6

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.6

Description

In the HDF5 1.8.16 library's failure to check if the number of dimensions for an array read from the file is within the bounds of the space allocated for it, a heap-based buffer overflow will occur, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

81%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.10.0-patch1+docs-1`
sid	Fixed	`1.10.0-patch1+docs-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.10.0-patch1+docs-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.10.0-patch1+docs-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.10.0-patch1+docs-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
hdfgroup	hdf5	`1.8.16`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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