Untrusted pointer dereference in the render_bin_output function in the h5dump tool in HDF5 before 2.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a variable-length string dataset with more than one element dumped in binary mode, which corrupts the per-element stride calculation and causes subsequent elements to be read from a misaligned offset and dereferenced as a pointer.
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| Description | Untrusted pointer dereference in the render_bin_output function in the h5dump tool in HDF5 before 2.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a variable-length string dataset with more than one element dumped in binary mode, which corrupts the per-element stride calculation and causes subsequent elements to be read from a misaligned offset and dereferenced as a pointer. | |
| Title | HDF5 h5dump Untrusted Pointer Dereference in Binary Output of Variable-Length String Datasets | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-822 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: HDFG
Published: 2026-08-05T22:13:45.859Z
Updated: 2026-08-06T15:15:50.664Z
Reserved: 2026-08-05T22:12:46.385Z
Link: CVE-2026-19023
Updated: 2026-08-06T13:31:26.672Z
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