CVE-2024-29166: Hdfgroup HDF5

Medium severity, CVSS 5.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

HDF5 through 1.14.3 contains a buffer overflow in H5O__linfo_decode, 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.