What is GHSA-cv7r-692h-j9fh?

GHSA-cv7r-692h-j9fh is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. HDF5 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-cv7r-692h-j9fh cover?

GHSA-cv7r-692h-j9fh covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-17574. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

GHSA-cv7r-692h-j9fhMedium

HDF5 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

July 27, 2026

Last Modified

July 27, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-17574 →

📋 Description

HDF5 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing an attribute with an invalid variable-length datatype type field may cause the application to crash when the attribute is read.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17574
https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/commit/3fa6ed6e9dfeebbc784e21d8c48e31e35a8042bc
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cv7r-692h-j9fh