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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2025-2924: hdf5 -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 28, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in HDF5 up to 1.14.6. This affects the function H5HL__fl_deserialize of the file src/H5HLcache.c. The manipulation of the argument free_block leads to heap-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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