A vulnerability was found in HDF5 1.14.6 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function H5MM_strndup of the component Metadata Attribute Decoder. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor plans to fix this issue in an upcoming release.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - A vulnerability was found in HDF5 1.14.6 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function
    H5MM_strndup of the component Metadata Attribute Decoder. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer
    overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be
    used. The vendor plans to fix this issue in an upcoming release. (CVE-2025-2310)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:23731 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.

  - A vulnerability was found in HDF5 1.14.6 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function     H5MM_strndup of the component Metadata Attribute Decoder. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer     overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be     used. The vendor plans to fix this issue in an upcoming release. (CVE-2025-2310)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
462392	Echo: hdf5: security update to 1.14.5+repack-3+e1	Tenable Cloud Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
462392	Echo: hdf5: security update to 1.14.5+repack-3+e1	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
279525	RHEL 9 : RHEL AI 3.0 hdf5 (RHSA-2025:23731)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	medium
252224	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-2310	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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