Bug 2502860 - CVE-2026-26199 hdf5: HDF5: Denial of Service via buffer underflow in H5Iget_name [epel-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-26199 hdf5: HDF5: Denial of Service via buffer underflow in H5Iget_n...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: hdf5
Version: epel10
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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medium
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Assignee: Orion Poplawski
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-26199
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Reported: 2026-07-20 16:30 UTC by Ganesh
Modified: 2026-07-20 16:30 UTC (History)
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Description Ganesh 2026-07-20 16:30:42 UTC
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HDF5 is a high-performance library and a file format specification that implements the HDF5 data model. If `H5Iget_name` is invoked on a group id with `0` for the size parameter, it will underflow when trying to place a null terminator in the buffer. This can occur if `H5Iget_name` is invoked in a way where `size` can be forced to zero, and there is important data before the `name` buffer.


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