Hi Ann,

Yes, we think the vulnerabilities do exist in earlier releases.

-Barbara
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hdf-forum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ann 
M Al-jazrawi
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 10:03 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Hdf-forum] CVE-2016-4330 to CVE-2016-4333

Hi,

Do these vulnerabilities also exist in previous versions of HDF5 1.8.n?

Thanks!
Ann Al-Jazrawi

On 12/01/2016 09:17 AM, Barbara Jones wrote:
> Hi Tobias,
>
> The vulnerabilities you mentioned were addressed in the HDF5 1.8.18 release 
> that you can obtain here:
>   
>     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain518.html
>
> For the issues fixed, please see the RELEASE.txt file:
>
>     
> https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current18/src/hdf5-1.8.18-RELEASE.txt
>
> Unfortunately, we failed to indicate the corresponding TALOS reports. Here 
> they are:
>
> CVE-2016-4330:  HDF5 bug  HDFFV-9992 (TALOS-2016-176)
> CVE-2016-4331:  HDF5 bug  HDFFV-9951 (TALOS-2016-177)
> CVE-2016-4332:  HDF5 bug  HDFFV-9950 (TALOS-2016-178)
> CVE-2016-4333:  HDF5 bug  HDFFV-9993 (TALOS-2016-179))
>
> The fixes are not in HDF5-1.10.0-patch1, but will be in the HDF5 1.10.1 
> release coming in January 2017.
>
> -Barbara
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hdf-forum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Tobias Richter
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 2:48 AM
> To: HDF Users Discussion List
> Subject: [Hdf-forum] CVE-2016-4330 to CVE-2016-4333
>
> Hi,
>
> Apparently a number of security relevant problems have been found in the
> HDF5 library and have been publicised a couple of weeks ago:
>
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4330
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4331
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4332
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4333
>
>
> I understand there is some risk opening untrusted HDF5 files with an unfixed 
> library. Some linux distributions have pushed out patched versions (for 
> example Debian), but I’m not sure there is a source release available (or a 
> binary build for that matter) from the HDF group. At least I could not see 
> any announcement in this mailing list or on their web page.
>
> Best wishes,
> Tobias
>
>
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