Medium
Security advisory
A buffer overflow in H5O__layout_encode in H5Olayout.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.4 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HDF5 file. This issue was triggered while repacking an HDF5 file, aka "Invalid write of size 2."
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-8396
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:34 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A buffer overflow in H5O__layout_encode in H5Olayout.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.4 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HDF5 file. This issue was triggered while repacking an HDF5 file, aka "Invalid write of size 2."
osv:CVE-2019-8396
Complete source record
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