cve/2018/CVE-2018-17234.md

### [CVE-2018-17234](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17234)
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### Description

Memory leak in the H5O__chunk_deserialize() function in H5Ocache.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HDF5 file.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln3#memory-leak---h5o__chunk_deserialize_memory_leak

#### Github
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