Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package hdf5  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2510-HDF5-15026113
  • published17 Jan 2026
  • disclosed25 Feb 2019

Introduced: 25 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-9151  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:25.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hdf5 package and not the hdf5 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.4 library. There is an out of bounds read in the function H5VM_memcpyvv in H5VM.c when called from H5D__compact_readvv in H5Dcompact.c.