HDF5 library through 1.14.3 has memory corruption in H5A__close resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TSSA-2024:0175 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2024-33877:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 has a heap-based buffer overflow in H5T__conv_struct_opt in H5Tconv.c.

    CVE-2024-33876:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 has a heap buffer overflow in H5S__point_deserialize in H5Spoint.c.

    CVE-2024-33875:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 has a heap-based buffer overflow in H5O__layout_encode in H5Olayout.c,     resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer.

    CVE-2024-33874:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 has a heap buffer overflow in H5O__mtime_new_encode in H5Omtime.c.

    CVE-2024-33873:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 has a heap-based buffer overflow in H5D__scatter_mem in H5Dscatgath.c.

    CVE-2024-32624:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 contains a heap-based buffer overflow in H5T__ref_mem_setnull in H5Tref.c     (called from H5T__conv_ref in H5Tconv.c), resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer.

    CVE-2024-32623:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 contains a heap-based buffer overflow in H5VM_array_fill in H5VM.c (called     from H5S_select_elements in H5Spoint.c).

    CVE-2024-32622:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 contains a out-of-bounds read operation in H5FL_arr_malloc in H5FL.c (called     from H5S_set_extent_simple in H5S.c).

    CVE-2024-32621:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 contains a heap-based buffer overflow in H5HG_read in H5HG.c (called from     H5VL__native_blob_get in H5VLnative_blob.c), resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer.

    CVE-2024-32620:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 contains a heap-based buffer over-read in H5F_addr_decode_len in H5Fint.c,     resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer.

    CVE-2024-32619:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 contains a heap-based buffer overflow in H5T_copy_reopen in H5T.c, resulting     in the corruption of the instruction pointer.

    CVE-2024-32618:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 contains a heap-based buffer overflow in H5T__get_native_type in H5Tnative.c,     resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer.

    CVE-2024-32617:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 contains a heap-based buffer over-read caused by the unsafe use of strdup in     H5MM_xstrdup in H5MM.c (called from H5G__ent_to_link in H5Glink.c).

    CVE-2024-32616:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 contains a heap-based buffer over-read in H5O__dtype_encode_helper in     H5Odtype.c.

    CVE-2024-32615:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 contains a heap-based buffer overflow in H5Z__nbit_decompress_one_byte in     H5Znbit.c, caused by the earlier use of an initialized pointer.

    CVE-2024-32614:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 has a SEGV in H5VM_memcpyvv in H5VM.c.

    CVE-2024-32613:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 contains a heap-based buffer over-read in the function H5HL__fl_deserialize in     H5HLcache.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-32612.

    CVE-2024-32612:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 contains a heap-based buffer over-read in H5HL__fl_deserialize in H5HLcache.c,     resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-32613.

    CVE-2024-32611:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 may use an uninitialized value in H5A__attr_release_table in H5Aint.c.

    CVE-2024-32610:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 has a SEGV in H5T_close_real in H5T.c, resulting in a corrupted instruction     pointer.

    CVE-2024-32609:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 allows stack consumption in the function H5E_printf_stack in H5Eint.c.

    CVE-2024-32608:
    ** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when     announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate     will be provided.

    CVE-2024-32607:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 has a SEGV in H5A__close in H5Aint.c, resulting in the corruption of the     instruction pointer.

    CVE-2024-32606:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 may attempt to dereference uninitialized values in h5tools_str_sprint in     tools/lib/h5tools_str.c (called from h5tools_dump_simple_data in tools/lib/h5tools_dump.c).

    CVE-2024-32605:
    HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read in H5VM_memcpyvv in H5VM.c (called from     H5D__compact_readvv in H5Dcompact.c).

    CVE-2024-29166:
    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.

    CVE-2024-29165:
    HDF5 through 1.14.3 contains a buffer overflow in H5Z__filter_fletcher32, resulting in the corruption of     the instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.

    CVE-2024-29164:
    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-2024-29163:
    HDF5 through 1.14.3 contains a heap buffer overflow in H5T__bit_find, resulting in the corruption of the     instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.

    CVE-2024-29162:
    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.

    CVE-2024-29161:
    HDF5 through 1.14.3 contains a heap buffer overflow in H5A__attr_release_table, resulting in the     corruption of the instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.

    CVE-2024-29160:
    HDF5 through 1.14.3 contains a heap buffer overflow in H5HG__cache_heap_deserialize, resulting in the     corruption of the instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.

    CVE-2024-29159:
    HDF5 through 1.14.3 contains a buffer overflow in H5Z__filter_scaleoffset, resulting in the corruption of     the instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.

    CVE-2024-29158:
    HDF5 through 1.14.3 contains a stack buffer overflow in H5FL_arr_malloc, resulting in the corruption of     the instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.

    CVE-2024-29157:
    HDF5 through 1.14.3 contains a heap buffer overflow in H5HG_read, resulting in the corruption of the     instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.

    CVE-2022-26061:
    A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the gif2h5 functionality of HDF5 Group libhdf5     1.10.4. A specially-crafted GIF file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file     to trigger this vulnerability.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent 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 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 library through 1.14.3 has memory corruption in H5A__close resulting in the corruption of the     instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution. (CVE-2024-32608)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3144-1 advisory.

    hdf5 was updated from version 1.10.8 to 1.10.11:

    - Security issues fixed:

      * CVE-2019-8396: Fixed problems with malformed HDF5 files where content does not match expected size.
    (bsc#1125882)
      * CVE-2018-11202: Fixed that a malformed file could result in chunk index memory leaks. (bsc#1093641)
      * CVE-2016-4332: Fixed an assertion in a previous fix for this issue (bsc#1011205).
      * CVE-2020-10812: Fixed a segfault on file close in h5debug which fails with a core dump on a file that     has an illegal         file size in its cache image.Fixes HDFFV-11052, (bsc#1167400).
      * CVE-2021-37501: Fixed buffer overflow in hdf5-h5dump (bsc#1207973)
      * Other security issues fixed (bsc#1224158):

        +  CVE-2024-29158, CVE-2024-29161, CVE-2024-29166, CVE-2024-32608,         +  CVE-2024-32610, CVE-2024-32614, CVE-2024-32619, CVE-2024-32620,         +  CVE-2024-33873, CVE-2024-33874, CVE-2024-33875         +  Additionally, these fixes resolve crashes triggered by the            reproducers for CVE-2017-17507, CVE-2018-11205. These crashes            appear to be unrelated to the original problems

    - Other issues fixed:

      * Remove timestamp/buildhost/kernel version from libhdf5.settings (bsc#1209548)
      * Changed the error handling for a not found path in the find plugin process.
      * Fixed a file space allocation bug in the parallel library for chunked datasets.
      * Fixed an assertion failure in Parallel HDF5 when a file can't be created due to an invalid library     version bounds         setting.
      * Fixed memory leaks that could occur when reading a dataset from a malformed file.
      * Fixed a bug in H5Ocopy that could generate invalid HDF5 files
      * Fixed potential heap buffer overflow in decoding of link info message.
      * Fixed potential buffer overrun issues in some object header decode routines.
      * Fixed a heap buffer overflow that occurs when reading from a dataset with a compact layout within a     malformed HDF5         file.
      * Fixed memory leak when running h5dump with proof of vulnerability file.
      * Added option --no-compact-subset to h5diff
      * Several improvements to parallel compression feature, including:

        + Improved support for collective I/O (for both writes and reads).
        + Reduction of copying of application data buffers passed to H5Dwrite.
        + Addition of support for incremental file space allocation for filtered datasets created in parallel.
        + Addition of support for HDF5's 'don't filter partial edge chunks' flag         + Addition of proper support for HDF5 fill values with the feature.
        + Addition of 'H5_HAVE_PARALLEL_FILTERED_WRITES' macro toH5pubconf.h so HDF5 applications can     determine at           compile-time whether the feature is available.
        + Addition of simple examples

      * h5repack added an optional verbose value for reporting R/W timing.
      * Fixed a metadata cache bug when resizing a pinned/protected cache entry.
      * Fixed a problem with the H5_VERS_RELEASE check in the H5check_version function.
      * Unified handling of collective metadata reads to correctly fix old bugs.
      * Fixed several potential MPI deadlocks in library failure conditions.
      * Fixed an issue with collective metadata reads being permanently disabled after a dataset chunk lookup     operation.

    netcdf was updated to fix:

    - rebuild against new hdf5 library version.

    trilinos was updated to fix:

    - Rebuild against new hdf5 library version.
    - Fix dependency in module file for MPI version of Trilinos to depend on the correct version of netcdf     (bsc#1210049).
      This prevents the error message:
      'Lmod has detected the following error: These module(s) or        extension(s) exist but cannot be loaded as requested: 'trilinos'

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2195-1 advisory.

    - Fix bsc#1224158 - this fixes:
      CVE-2024-29158, CVE-2024-29161, CVE-2024-29166, CVE-2024-32608,       CVE-2024-32610, CVE-2024-32614, CVE-2024-32619, CVE-2024-32620,       CVE-2024-33873, CVE-2024-33874, CVE-2024-33875       Additionally, these fixes resolve crashes triggered by the       reproducers for CVE-2017-17507, CVE-2018-11205. These crashes       appear to be unrelated to the original problems.


    This update also ships several missing PackageHub packages for 15 SP5 and 15 SP6.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2105-1 advisory.

    - Fix various security issues in hdf5 (bsc#1224158):

      CVE-2024-29158, CVE-2024-29161, CVE-2024-29166, CVE-2024-32608,       CVE-2024-32610, CVE-2024-32614, CVE-2024-32619, CVE-2024-32620,       CVE-2024-33873, CVE-2024-33874, CVE-2024-33875

    - Additionally, these fixes resolve crashes triggered by the       reproducers for CVE-2017-17507, CVE-2018-11205. These crashes       appear to be unrelated to the original problems.
    - set higher constraints for succesful mpich tests (bsc#1133222)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
238642	TencentOS Server 4: hdf5 (TSSA-2024:0175)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	critical
234263	RHEL 9 : RHEL AI 1.5 hdf5 (RHSA-2025:3801)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
227781	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-32608	Nessus	Misc.	critical
206700	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : hdf5, netcdf, trilinos (SUSE-SU-2024:3144-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
201012	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : hdf5 (SUSE-SU-2024:2195-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
200804	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : hdf5 (SUSE-SU-2024:2105-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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