CVE-2024-29164: Hdfgroup HDF5

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

HDF5 through 1.14.3 contains a stack buffer overflow in H5R__decode_heap, resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.

Affected products

• Hdfgroup HDF5: before 1.14.4 (fixed in 1.14.4)

Published 2024-05-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.