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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2024-32621

High
9.8/10

Summary

The HDF5 Library versions prior to 1.14.4 contain a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in 'H5HG_read' in 'H5HG.c' (called from 'H5VL__native_blob_get' in 'H5VLnative_blob.c'), resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • 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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