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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2024-32612

High
7.4/10

Summary

HDF5 Library versions prior to 1.14.4, contain a Heap-based Buffer Overflow in "H5HL__fl_deserialize" in "H5HLcache.c", resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-32613. This has the same fix as CVE-2024-32613.

  • 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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