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Security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2024-32608

HDF5 library through 1.14.3 has memory corruption in H5A__close resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.

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7 Nov 2026, 10:10 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2024-32608

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Oct 2024, 00:00 UTC

HDF5 library through 1.14.3 has memory corruption in H5A__close resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.

osv:CVE-2024-32608
Complete source record
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