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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-17574

HDF5 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing an attribute with an invalid variable-length datatyp...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

HDF5 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing an attribute with an invalid variable-length datatype type field may cause the application to crash when the attribute is read.

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":"2.2.0+repack-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org