A heap-use-after-free vulnerability exists in H5T__conv_f_f() in src/H5Tconv.c in HDF5 before 1.14.2. When converting a compound datatype containing floating-point members during a dataset read, a temporary buffer allocated with calloc() is freed and subsequently read from within the same conversion routine. An attacker who can supply a crafted HDF5 file containing a specially constructed compound datatype can trigger the use-after-free when the file is parsed by an application that reads the affected dataset, such as h5dump. This can result in a crash and, depending on heap layout and allocator behavior, may be exploitable for further memory corruption up to remote code execution.

A heap-use-after-free vulnerability exists in H5T__conv_f_f() in src/H5Tconv.c in HDF5 before 1.14.2. When converting a compound datatype containing floating-point members during a dataset read, a temporary buffer allocated with calloc() is freed and subsequently read from within the same conversion routine. An attacker who can supply a crafted HDF5 file containing a specially constructed compound datatype can trigger the use-after-free when the file is parsed by an application that reads the affected dataset, such as h5dump. This can result in a crash and, depending on heap layout and allocator behavior, may be exploitable for further memory corruption up to remote code execution.

hdf5: HDF5: Denial of Service via crafted file requiring user interaction hdf5: HDF5 library: Denial of Service via crafted HDF5 file processing hdf5: HDF5: Denial of Service due to malformed chunk data in files hdf5: HDF5: Out-of-bounds read due to corrupted file can lead to denial of service hdf5: HDF5 h5dump: Arbitrary code execution via a crafted HDF5 file HDF5: HDF5: Memory corruption via crafted HDF5 file

Affected: Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS: hdf5, Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS: hdf5, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: hdf5, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: hdf5, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: hdf5, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: hdf5, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: hdf5

A heap-use-after-free vulnerability exists in H5T__conv_f_f() in src/H5Tconv.c in HDF5 before 1.14.2. When converting a compound datatype containing floating-point members during a dataset read, a temporary buffer allocated with calloc() is freed and subsequently read from within the same conversion routine. An attacker who can supply a crafted HDF5 file containing a specially constructed compound datatype can trigger the use-after-free when the file is parsed by an application that reads the affected dataset, such as h5dump. This can result in a crash and, depending on heap layout and allocator behavior, may be exploitable for further memory corruption up to remote code execution.