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CVE-2024-29158 (GCVE-0-2024-29158)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-09 16:22 – Updated: 2025-02-13 15:47
VLAI
Summary
HDF5 through 1.14.3 contains a stack buffer overflow in H5FL_arr_malloc, resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.
Severity
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-09 18:16 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
hdfgroup hdf5 Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.14.3 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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