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FKIE_CVE-2026-92627

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-16 16:17 - Updated: 2026-09-17 18:17

Severity

4.6 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Summary

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	0253b833-3e77-4dfe-9d57-17db1a2f0a74	https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/hdf5-memory-corruption

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-92627 (GCVE-0-2026-92627)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-16 15:16 – Updated: 2026-09-17 17:36

Title

Heap Use-After-Free in H5T__conv_f_f

Summary

Severity

4.6 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-17 17:36 UTC

CWE

CWE-416 - Use after free

Assigner

HDFG redhat root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/hdf5-memor…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
The HDF Group	HDF5	Affected: < 1.14.2

Credits

Denis Andzakovic

Show details on NVD website

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