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CVE-2026-19024: HDF5 H5Pget_fill_value NULL Pointer Dereference via Malformed Fill Value Message
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 v4.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-08-05 · updated 2026-10-23
- Weakness: CWE-476
Description
NULL pointer dereference in H5Pget_fill_value in HDF5 before 2.3.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a dataset whose version 1 or 2 fill value message has the "defined" flag set together with a negative size field, which is not normalized to the library's "undefined" sentinel and reaches H5T_path_find with a NULL datatype.
Affected products
- HDF5: through 2.3.0
References
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