Description
A double free vulnerability was discovered in the HDF5 library. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing an oversized chunk size field via h5repack may cause the application to abort due to a double free.
Published: 2026-07-27
Score: 4 Medium
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KEV: No
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Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +0000

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Description A double free vulnerability was discovered in the HDF5 library. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing an oversized chunk size field via h5repack may cause the application to abort due to a double free.
Title Double Free in H5D__chunk_copy() in HDF5 via a Crafted Chunk-Index Size Field
Weaknesses CWE-415
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 4, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U'}

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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: HDFG

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Updated: 2026-07-27T15:11:54.655Z

Reserved: 2026-07-27T15:07:06.180Z

Link: CVE-2026-17573

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