CVE-2020-10811

Publication date 22 March 2020

Last updated 16 January 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0. A heap-based buffer over-read exists in the function H5O__layout_decode() located in H5Olayout.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
hdf5	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable

Notes

ebarretto

Duplicate of CVE-2018-14033

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H