HDF5 up to 1.14.3 H5Tref.c H5T__ref_mem_setnull heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in HDF5 up to 1.14.3. This impacts the function H5T__ref_mem_setnull of the file H5Tref.c. This manipulation causes heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-32624. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in HDF5 up to 1.14.3. Affected by this vulnerability is the function H5T__ref_mem_setnull of the file H5Tref.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-122. 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(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 contains a heap-based buffer overflow in H5T__ref_mem_setnull in H5Tref.c (called from H5T__conv_ref in H5Tconv.c), resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer.

The advisory is shared at hdfgroup.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-32624 since 04/16/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/08/2024).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

04/16/2024 🔍
05/09/2024 +23 days 🔍
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08/08/2024 +91 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: hdfgroup.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-32624 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-32624
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-263701

Entryinfo

Created: 05/09/2024 19:24
Updated: 08/08/2024 21:45
Changes: 05/09/2024 19:24 (53), 08/08/2024 21:45 (13)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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