HDF5 SOHM List Index Heap Buffer Overflow

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-17572",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "HDF5 SOHM List Index Heap Buffer Overflow",
    "summary": "Heap-based buffer overflow in the SOHM list-index deserialization code in HDF5 through 2.1.1 on all platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted HDF5 file whose shared-message list index declares a num_messages count exceeding list_max, triggering out-of-bounds heap reads and writes in H5SM__cache_list_deserialize and H5SM__cache_list_verify_chksum.",
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    "severity": "medium",
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            "hdf5-1_13_0-rc6",
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            "hdf5-1_8_0-beta1",
            "hdf5-1_8_0-alpha4",
            "hdf5-1_8_0-alpha3",
            "hdf5-1_8_0-alpha2",
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            "before_removing_tbbt_code",
            "before_signed_unsigned_changes",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:30.802883338Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/17xxx/CVE-2026-17572.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17572",
        "https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/6501"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-125",
          "CWE-787"
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        "cna_assigner": "HDFG",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 497822,
  "published_at": "2026-07-27T15:11:36.949+00:00"
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