CVE-2026-17572

Name
CVE-2026-17572
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the SOHM list-index deserialization code in HDF5 through 2.1.1 on all platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted HDF5 file whose shared-message list index declares a num_messages count exceeding list_max, triggering out-of-bounds heap reads and writes in H5SM__cache_list_deserialize and H5SM__cache_list_verify_chksum.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
0253b833-3e77-4dfe-9d57-17db1a2f0a74 https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/6501

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* hdf5 >= None < 2.2.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
hdf5 edge-community 1.14.4.2-r1 Holger Jaekel <holger.jaekel@gmx.de> possibly vulnerable
hdf5 edge-community 1.12.2-r0 Holger Jaekel <holger.jaekel@gmx.de> possibly vulnerable
hdf5 edge-community 1.12.1-r0 Holger Jaekel <holger.jaekel@gmx.de> possibly vulnerable
hdf5 3.24-community 1.14.4.2-r1 Holger Jaekel <holger.jaekel@gmx.de> possibly vulnerable