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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2020-10810
CVE-2020-10810:
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability (CVE-2020-10810) was discovered in HDF5 through version 1.12.0. The vulnerability exists in the function H5AC_unpin_entry() located in H5AC.c file. This vulnerability was identified and reported in March 2020 (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability occurs when the function H5AC_unpin_entry() attempts to dereference a NULL cache_ptr pointer before calling H5C_log_write_unpin_entry_msg() for generating a log message. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 5.5 (MEDIUM) with vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H (NVD, Loginsoft Research).
Impact
When exploited, this vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition in the application (NVD).
Exploitability
The vulnerability can be triggered by sending a crafted file to the h5clear binary. The attack requires local access and user interaction (Loginsoft Research).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability was fixed in HDF5 version 1.10.8 for the 1.10.x series (Debian Tracker).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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