CVE-2021-46243: NULL Pointer Dereference

January 21, 2022 (updated January 28, 2022)

An untrusted pointer dereference vulnerability exists in HDF5 v1.13.1-1 via the function H5O__dtype_decode_helper () at hdf5/src/H5Odtype.c. This vulnerability can lead to a Denial of Service (DoS).

References

github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/1326
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46243

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