CVE-2025-2926 (GCVE-0-2025-2926)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-28 20:00
Modified
2025-07-24 09:43
CWE
Summary
A vulnerability was found in HDF5 up to 1.14.6 and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function H5O__cache_chk_serialize of the file src/H5Ocache.c. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a HDF5 Version: 1.14.0
Version: 1.14.1
Version: 1.14.2
Version: 1.14.3
Version: 1.14.4
Version: 1.14.5
Version: 1.14.6
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