Candidate: CVE-2016-4332
PublicDate: 2016-11-18 20:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4332
 http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0178/
Description:
 The library's failure to check if certain message types support a
 particular flag, the HDF5 1.8.16 library will cast the structure to an
 alternative structure and then assign to fields that aren't supported by
 the message type and the library will write outside the bounds of the heap
 buffer. This can lead to code execution under the context of the library.
Ubuntu-Description:
 It was discovered that HDF5 incorrectly handled certain message types. An
 attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H [8.6 HIGH]

Patches_hdf5:
upstream_hdf5: released (1.8.18)
precise_hdf5: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_hdf5: DNE (precise was needs-triage)
trusty_hdf5: released (1.8.11-5ubuntu7.1)
trusty/esm_hdf5: released (1.8.11-5ubuntu7.1)

vivid/stable-phone-overlay_hdf5: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_hdf5: DNE
xenial_hdf5: released (1.8.16+docs-4ubuntu1.1)

yakkety_hdf5: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_hdf5: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_hdf5: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_hdf5: not-affected (1.10.0-patch1+docs-1~exp5)
devel_hdf5: not-affected (1.10.0-patch1+docs-1~exp5)