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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : HDF5 vulnerabilities (USN-4817-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183119

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4817-1 advisory.

 - In HDF5 1.10.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the function H5O_pline_decode in the H5Opline.c file in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.
 (CVE-2017-17505)

 - In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds read vulnerability in the function H5Opline_pline_decode in H5Opline.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.
 (CVE-2017-17506)

 - In HDF5 1.10.1, there is a divide-by-zero vulnerability in the function H5T_set_loc in the H5T.c file in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file. (CVE-2017-17508)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4817-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183119

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4817-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/16/2023

Updated: 10/16/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-17508

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:hdf5-helpers, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:hdf5-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-100, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-cpp-100, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-cpp-11, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-jni, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-mpi-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-mpich-10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-mpich-100, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-mpich-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-mpich2-7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-mpich2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-openmpi-10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-openmpi-100, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-openmpi-7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-openmpi-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdf5-serial-dev

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-17505, CVE-2017-17506, CVE-2017-17508

USN: 4817-1