CVE-2026-19023: HDF5 h5dump Untrusted Pointer Dereference in Binary Output of Variable-Length String Datasets
Published Aug 5, 2026
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Untrusted pointer dereference in the renderbinoutput function in the h5dump tool in HDF5 before 2.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a variable-length string dataset with more than one element dumped in binary mode, which corrupts the per-element stride calculation and causes subsequent elements to be read from a misaligned offset and dereferenced as a pointer.
Affected Software
2 affected components
HDF Group HDF5<2.1.1
HDF Group h5dump<2.1.1
Event History
Aug 5, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·10:13 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·10:13 PM
DescriptionWeakness