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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2025-6856: hdf5 -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 29, 2025
Added
Jul 2, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in HDF5 1.14.6. Affected is the function H5FL__reg_gc_list of the file src/H5FL.c. The manipulation leads to use after free. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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