Medium [CVE-2026-17574] Denial of Service via crafted HDF5 file processing
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-17574 affecting Red Hat AI Inference Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3, Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI).
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Summary
HDF5 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing an attribute with an invalid variable-length datatype type field may cause the application to crash when the attribute is read.
A flaw was found in HDF5. A local user can exploit this vulnerability by processing a specially crafted HDF5 file.
This issue affects Red Hat products that utilize HDF5 for data handling, requiring user interaction to process the malicious file. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
Weakness: CWE-476. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat AI Inference Server; Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3; Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI).
Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation
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Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 12 days ago·verify at source
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