CVE-2026-17572 — HDF5 SOHM List Index Heap Buffer Overflow
Heap-based buffer overflow in the SOHM list-index deserialization code in HDF5 through 2.1.1 on all platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted…
Published: 2026-07-27 · CVSS: 5.5 · CVSS 4.0
Heap-based buffer overflow in the SOHM list-index deserialization code in HDF5 through 2.1.1 on all platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted HDF5 file whose shared-message list index declares a num_messages count exceeding list_max, triggering out-of-bounds heap reads and writes in H5SM__cache_list_deserialize and H5SM__cache_list_verify_chksum.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7