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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:3801 advisory.

    RPM packages are internal build artifacts and not supported on their own.
    They are only supported as part of the RHEL AI application image.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2024-29164)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of hdf5 installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-29164 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2024-29164)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of hdf5 installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-29164 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2024-29164)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
234263	RHEL 9 : RHEL AI 1.5 hdf5 (RHSA-2025:3801)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
228285	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-29164	Nessus	Misc.	critical
215674	Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: hdf5 (CVE-2024-29164)	Nessus	Azure Linux Local Security Checks	critical
201684	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: hdf5 (CVE-2024-29164)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	critical

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