HDF5 up to 1.14.3 H5Eint.c H5E_printf_stack stack-based overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in HDF5 up to 1.14.3. Affected is the function H5E_printf_stack of the file H5Eint.c. Such manipulation leads to stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-32609. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in HDF5 up to 1.14.3. Affected by this issue is the function H5E_printf_stack of the file H5Eint.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 allows stack consumption in the function H5E_printf_stack in H5Eint.c.

The advisory is available at hdfgroup.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-32609 since 04/16/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/19/2025).

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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• Database Software

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• HDF5

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• 1.14.0
• 1.14.1
• 1.14.2
• 1.14.3

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• free

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