A double free vulnerability was discovered in the HDF5 library. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing an oversized chunk size field via h5repack may cause the application to abort due to a double free.
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| The HDF Group | HDF5 | unaffected |
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| https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/6124 |
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Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +0000
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| Description | A double free vulnerability was discovered in the HDF5 library. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing an oversized chunk size field via h5repack may cause the application to abort due to a double free. | |
| Title | Double Free in H5D__chunk_copy() in HDF5 via a Crafted Chunk-Index Size Field | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-415 | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: HDFG
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-27T17:27:00.732Z
Reserved: 2026-07-27T15:07:06.180Z
Link: CVE-2026-17573
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