The vulnerability of the ReadGifHeader() function in the HDF5 library libhdf5 allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability of the ReadGifHeader function in the HDF5 library libhdf5 is related to writing beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system by having the user open a specially created maliciou...