cve/2018/CVE-2018-17435.md

### [CVE-2018-17435](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17435)
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### Description

A heap-based buffer over-read in H5O_attr_decode() in H5Oattr.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HDF5 file. This issue was triggered while converting an HDF file to GIF file.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln7#heap-overflow-in-h5o_attr_decode
- https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln7#heap-overflow-in-h5o_attr_decode

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.