Process crash via datatype cleanup memory corruption
Published May 9, 2024 · Updated Feb 13, 2025
Memory corruption in HDF5 Library 1.14.3 and earlier allows local users to crash a consuming process during datatype cleanup. The CNA locates the fault in H5T_close_real in H5T.c, while HDF Group's later CVE list labels it a heap buffer overflow in H5T__ref_mem_setnull; the bundled public patch does not resolve this mismatch. Triggering requires local access and high-complexity conditions without authentication or user interaction; the documented result is process termination after instruction-pointer corruption.
Summary
What happened
Memory corruption in HDF5 Library 1.14.3 and earlier allows local users to crash a consuming process during datatype cleanup. The CNA locates the fault in H5T_close_real in H5T.c, while HDF Group's later CVE list labels it a heap buffer overflow in H5T__ref_mem_setnull; the bundled public patch does not resolve this mismatch. Triggering requires local access and high-complexity conditions without authentication or user interaction; the documented result is process termination after instruction-pointer corruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-32610
- Published
- May 9, 2024
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
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- Unknown vendor
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- CWE-416
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
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- May 9, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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