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Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CVE-2024-33875

Medium
5.7/10

Summary

HDF5 Library versions prior to 1.14.4 have a Heap-based Buffer Overflow in 'H5O__layout_encode' in 'H5Olayout.c', resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer.

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

CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

The program copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow.

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