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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2024-29160

High
7.4/10

Summary

HDF5 in versions through 1.14.3 contains a heap buffer overflow in "H5HG__cache_heap_deserialize", resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer and causing Denial of Service (DoS) or potential code execution.

  • HIGH
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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