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🛡️ CVE-2025-44904 on Debian — hdf5

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

hdf5 v1.14.6 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow via the H5VM_memcpyvv function.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-44904 as tracked by Debian, for the package hdf5. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-44904 is classified as CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow. A write past the end of a heap allocation corrupts allocator metadata or neighbouring objects.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-44904 is recorded against 1 package.

  • hdf5

Timeline and source

Published on 30 May 2025 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)

CVE-2025-44904 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-05-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
hdf5 — —

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