vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2025-2310: hdf5 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 14, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in HDF5 1.14.6 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function H5MM_strndup of the component Metadata Attribute Decoder. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor plans to fix this issue in an upcoming release.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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