Vulnerability - CVE-2020-10812

Name

CVE-2020-10812

Source

NVD ( link)Debian ( link)

Description

An issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function H5F_get_nrefs() located in H5Fquery.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

CWEs

CWE-476

Published Date

Mar 22, 2020

Updated Date

Jun 17, 2026

Workaround

Advisories

https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txtRelease Notes

https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_4Exploit

https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/null-pointer-dereference-in-h5fquery-c-hdf5-1-13-0/Exploit

https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txtRelease Notes

https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_4Exploit

https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/null-pointer-dereference-in-h5fquery-c-hdf5-1-13-0/Exploit

Analysis#

Affected Component

Analysis

hdf5

Exploitable

Vulnerability Ratings#

5.5

CVSSv31

4.3

CVSSv2

Others affected components#

Name

Project

Project Version

Version

Status

hdf5

yocto

master

2.0.0

Not Affected

hdf5

yocto

scarthgap

1.14.4-3

Not Affected