Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2016-4331 First vendor Publication 2016-11-18
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-11-04

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 8.6
Base Score 8.6 Environmental Score 8.6
impact SubScore 6 Temporal Score 8.6
Exploitabality Sub Score 1.8
 
Attack Vector Local Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction Required
Scope Changed Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

When decoding data out of a dataset encoded with the H5Z_NBIT decoding, the HDF5 1.8.16 library will fail to ensure that the precision is within the bounds of the size leading to arbitrary code execution.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4331

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2016-11-17 HDF5 H5Z_NBIT filter heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40802 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OTHER
2016-11-17 HDF5 H5Z_NBIT filter heap buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 40801 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-01-10 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_91e039edd68911e6917114dae9d210b8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-01-03 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-771.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-01-03 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201701-13.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-28 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-3477b592e3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3727.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94411
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3727
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13
MISC http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0177/

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