GHSA-2pvh-qgr3-wp2rMedium

The H5Z__nbit_decompress_one_byte, H5Z__nbit_decompress_one_nooptype, and...

Published
August 6, 2026
Last Modified
August 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The H5Z__nbit_decompress_one_byte, H5Z__nbit_decompress_one_nooptype, and H5Z__nbit_decompress_one_atomic functions in H5Znbit.c in HDF5 through 2.3.0 advance a read index into the compressed chunk buffer without bounding it against the buffer's actual size. This allows attackers to cause an out-of-bounds heap read, and in constrained cases disclosure of adjacent heap memory into decompressed dataset values, via a crafted HDF5 file whose N-Bit filter parameters describe more decompressed data than the stored compressed chunk actually contains, triggered via H5Dread, e.g. by the h5ls or h5repack tools.

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