CVE-2026-19023 PUBLISHED

HDF5 h5dump Untrusted Pointer Dereference in Binary Output of Variable-Length String Datasets

Assigner: HDFG
Reserved: 05.08.2026 Published: 05.08.2026 Updated: 06.08.2026

Untrusted pointer dereference in the render_bin_output function in the h5dump tool in HDF5 before 2.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a variable-length string dataset with more than one element dumped in binary mode, which corrupts the per-element stride calculation and causes subsequent elements to be read from a misaligned offset and dereferenced as a pointer.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.8

Product Status

Vendor The HDF Group
Product HDF5
Versions Default: unaffected
  • Version <= 2.3.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-822 Untrusted pointer dereference CWE