Source: hdf5 Version: 1.14.6+repack-2 Severity: important Tags: security upstream Forwarded: https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/6501 X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for hdf5. CVE-2026-17572[0]: | 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. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-17572 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-17572 [1] https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/6501 [2] https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/pull/6499 [3] https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/commit/20f0b9564bc46154e60f8d35578720a599d41552 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
