CVE-2026-17572

Name	CVE-2026-17572
Description	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 (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
hdf5 (PTS)	bullseye	1.10.6+repack-4+deb11u1	vulnerable
	bookworm	1.10.8+repack1-1	vulnerable
	trixie	1.14.5+repack-3	vulnerable
	forky, sid	1.14.6+repack-2	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
hdf5	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

Notes

https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/6501
https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/pull/6499
Fixed by: https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/commit/20f0b9564bc46154e60f8d35578720a599d41552 (2.2.0-rc1)