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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-17573

A double free vulnerability was discovered in the HDF5 library. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing an oversized chunk size field via h5repack m...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

A double free vulnerability was discovered in the HDF5 library. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing an oversized chunk size field via h5repack may cause the application to abort due to a double free.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 hdf5

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:13 hdf5

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:14 hdf5

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.0+repack-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org