CVE-2024-29166

Publication date 14 May 2024

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.7 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
hdf5 25.04 plucky
Needs evaluation
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.7 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H