Source: hdf5 Version: 1.14.6+repack-2 Severity: important Tags: security upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for hdf5. CVE-2026-17574[0]: | 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. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-17574 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-17574 [1] https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/commit/3fa6ed6e9dfeebbc784e21d8c48e31e35a8042bc Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore

