A security flaw has been discovered in OSGeo gdal up to 3.13.0dev-4. Impacted is the function GDnentries of the file frmts/hdf4/hdf-eos/GDapi.c. Performing a manipulation of the argument DataFieldName results in heap-based buffer overflow. The attack must be initiated from a local position. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. Upgrading to version 3.13.0RC1 is recommended to address this issue. The patch is named 184f77dbcc74118c062c05e464c88161d3c37b9b. You should upgrade the affected component.

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

  - A security flaw has been discovered in OSGeo gdal up to 3.13.0dev-4. Impacted is the function GDnentries
    of the file frmts/hdf4/hdf-eos/GDapi.c. Performing a manipulation of the argument DataFieldName results in
    heap-based buffer overflow. The attack must be initiated from a local position. The exploit has been
    released to the public and may be used for attacks. Upgrading to version 3.13.0RC1 is recommended to
    address this issue. The patch is named 184f77dbcc74118c062c05e464c88161d3c37b9b. You should upgrade the
    affected component. (CVE-2026-8087)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8812-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that GDAL incorrectly handled certain netCDF files. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu     26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-49014)

    It was discovered that GDAL incorrectly handled certain HDF-EOS files. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-8086, CVE-2026-8087, CVE-2026-8212,     CVE-2026-8213)

    It was discovered that GDAL incorrectly handled certain HDF-EOS file metadata. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause GDAL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-8084, CVE-2026-8088)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 security flaw has been discovered in OSGeo gdal up to 3.13.0dev-4. Impacted is the function GDnentries     of the file frmts/hdf4/hdf-eos/GDapi.c. Performing a manipulation of the argument DataFieldName results in     heap-based buffer overflow. The attack must be initiated from a local position. The exploit has been     released to the public and may be used for attacks. Upgrading to version 3.13.0RC1 is recommended to     address this issue. The patch is named 184f77dbcc74118c062c05e464c88161d3c37b9b. You should upgrade the     affected component. (CVE-2026-8087)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
461621	Echo: gdal: security update to 3.10.3+dfsg-1+e3	Tenable Cloud Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
461621	Echo: gdal: security update to 3.10.3+dfsg-1+e3	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
350178	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : GDAL vulnerabilities (USN-8812-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	medium
313251	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-8087	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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