Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 5, 2026
HDF5 h5dump Untrusted Pointer Dereference in Binary Output of Variable-Length String Datasets
CVE-2026-19023
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.
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Affected products
2- Range: <2.1.1
Patches
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