| Name | CVE-2026-17574 |
| Description | HDF5 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing an attribute with an invalid variable-length datatype type field may cause the application to crash when the attribute is read. |
| 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) |
| Debian Bugs | 1143001 |
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 | 2.1.0+repack-1 | vulnerable |
| sid | 2.2.0+repack-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| hdf5 | source | (unstable) | 2.2.0+repack-1 | unimportant | | 1143001 |
Notes
[bookworm] - hdf5 <postponed> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - hdf5 <postponed> (Minor issue)
Fixed by: https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/commit/3fa6ed6e9dfeebbc784e21d8c48e31e35a8042bc (2.2.0-rc1)
HDF not covered by security support, see https://bugs.debian.org/1117722