CVE-2025-2923 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Hdf5

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer OverflowCWE-787 — Out-of-bounds WriteCWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference6 documents5 sources
Severity
4.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 75.13%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
6
Hdfgroup Hdf5Debian Hdf5Msrc Azl3 Hdf5 1.14.4.3-1 ON Azure Linux 3.0+3 more
Timeline
PublishedMar 28

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in HDF5 up to 1.14.6. Affected by this issue is the function H5F_addr_encode_len of the file src/H5Fint.c. The manipulation of the argument pp leads to heap-based buffer overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Packages7 packages

▶NVDhdfgroup/hdf5< 1.14.6
▶debiandebian/hdf5
▶CVEListV5hdfgroup/hdf57 versions+6

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-gq5x-xc6w-4j57: A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in HDF5 up to 1↗2025-03-28
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OSV
CVE-2025-2923: A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in HDF5 up to 1↗2025-03-28
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Microsoft
HDF5 H5Fint.c H5F_addr_encode_len heap-based overflow↗2025-03-11
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Debian
CVE-2025-2923: hdf5 - A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in HDF5 up ...↗2025
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Microsoft
NULL Pointer Dereference in vim/vim↗2022-08-09
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