CVE-2024-29162

Publication date 14 May 2024

Last updated 27 February 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

HDF5 through 1.13.3 and/or 1.14.2 contains a stack buffer overflow in H5HG_read, resulting in denial of service or potential code execution.

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
hdf5	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage
	14.04 LTS trusty	Needs evaluation

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Package	Patch details
hdf5	Upstream: 136739b

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.4 · High

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H