Out-of-Bounds Affecting hdf5 package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-HDF5-10498091
  • published24 Jun 2025
  • disclosed23 Jun 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jun 2025

CVE-2025-6516  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds the function H5F_addr_decode_len in the file H5Fint.c. An attacker can execute arbitrary code, cause a denial of service, or potentially alter data by providing specially crafted input that triggers a heap-based overflow.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1