🛡️ CVE-2024-32606 on Debian — hdf5

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 may attempt to dereference uninitialized values in h5tools_str_sprint in tools/lib/h5tools_str.c (called from h5tools_dump_simple_data in tools/lib/h5tools_dump.c).

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-32606 as tracked by Debian, for the package hdf5. The fix is available in version 1.14.5+repack-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-32606 is classified as CWE-908: Use of Uninitialized Resource. A resource is read before being initialised, so its contents are whatever was left there.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-32606 is recorded against 1 package.

  • hdf5 (fixed in 1.14.5+repack-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2024 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
hdf5 — 1.14.5+repack-1

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