Bug 2566130

Summary: CVE-2026-120758 hdf5: hdf5: Denial of Service via NULL pointer dereference [epel-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Joel Chamberlain <jochambe>
Component: hdf5Assignee: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: epel10CC: igor.raits, orion, sagitterghostproton.me, scitech-bugs
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Description Joel Chamberlain 2026-11-03 19:31:33 UTC 
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HDF5 through 2.2.0 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in H5HL_unprotect() in src/H5HL.c. H5HL_protect() pins a single metadata cache entry for a local heap, either the heap prefix or the separate data block, and H5HL_unprotect() unpins it on the final unprotect. When the metadata cache destroys a corrupted local heap entry, H5HL__prfx_dest() unlinks it from the heap by setting heap->prfx or heap->dblk to NULL. A crafted HDF5 file can therefore reach H5HL_unprotect() with no cached object to unpin, and the function passes the NULL pointer to H5AC_unpin_entry(). This causes an assertion failure in debug builds and a NULL pointer dereference and crash in release builds. An attacker who can get a user or application to open and traverse a malicious file can cause a denial of service.