A vulnerability was found in HDF5 1.14.6 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function H5MM_strndup of the component Metadata Attribute Decoder. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor plans to fix this issue in an upcoming release.
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
| Link | Tags |
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| https://vuldb.com/?id.299723 | technical description vdb entry third party advisory |
| https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.299723 | signature vdb entry permissions required |
| https://vuldb.com/?submit.514533 | vdb entry third party advisory |
| https://github.com/madao123123/crash_report/blob/main/hdf5_poc/hdf5_poc4.md | exploit third party advisory |