fix(format): refuse datatypes libhdf5 refuses to decode

Datatype::parse now makes the checks of libhdf5's H5O__dtype_decode_helper
and fails with InvalidDatatype (libhdf5's own error text) instead of
decoding a corrupt type:

- size 0 ("invalid datatype size"), for every class;
- integer bit offset/precision outside the type, or precision 0;
- float sign/exponent/mantissa outside the type, empty, or overlapping;
  normalization 3; bit 6 without bit 0 from version 3;
- compound with no members, a member outside the compound, a duplicate
  name, or a member overlapping an earlier one;
- enum whose size differs from its base type's, or an empty member name;
- array of more than 32 dimensions or with a zero-sized one (v1 compound
  array members now say so rather than InvalidDatatypeVersion);
- opaque tag length that is not a multiple of 8.

Bit 6 of a version-1/2 float's class bits used to be read as VAX order,
byte-swapping values; libhdf5 ignores it before version 3, and so does
this now.

Only checks HDF5 2.0 (h5py 3.16) makes are added: newer libhdf5 also
checks bit fields, the variable-length kind and array sizes, but h5py
opens files that fail those, so they are left out. Each check was
confirmed against h5py by corrupting a file it wrote.

The conformance probe now decodes committed datatypes, as h5py's f[name]
does. Conformance (cached corpus, tank): 570 ok, unchanged. Objects
libhdf5 refuses that clawhdf5 used to read: cve-2016-4332-mtime (/cmpnd),
cve-2017-17508, cve-2024-32616 (/type1), cve-2024-32618, cve-2026-34734,
bad_compound.h5 (/cmpnd, /dataset); eight more that already failed now
fail with libhdf5's reason (e.g. cve-2024-29163 "mantissa range out of
bounds").

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
osobh
2026-09-26 00:08:58 -05:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent f4dee1cd08
commit 3cf8cd86f2
4 changed files with 473 additions and 13 deletions
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@@ -309,6 +309,14 @@ impl<'a> Ctx<'a> {
}
}
fn read_named_datatype(&self, h: &ObjectHeader) -> Result<(), String> {
let dtb = self
.payload(h, MessageType::Datatype)?
.ok_or("MissingMessage(Datatype)")?;
Datatype::parse(&dtb).map_err(e)?;
Ok(())
}
fn read_dataset(&self, h: &ObjectHeader, rec: &mut Map<String, Value>) -> Result<(), String> {
let dtb = self
.payload(h, MessageType::Datatype)?
@@ -778,6 +786,13 @@ fn main() {
{
rec.insert("error".into(), Value::String(msg));
}
// Opening a committed datatype decodes it (h5py's `f[name]` fails on
// one libhdf5 cannot decode), so decode it here too.
if kind == "datatype"
&& let Err(msg) = guarded(|| ctx.read_named_datatype(&h))
{
rec.insert("error".into(), Value::String(msg));
}
if kind != "datatype" {
match guarded(|| ctx.attrs(&h)) {
Ok(m) => {