hdf5: fix CVE-2025-2310

According to [1], A vulnerability was found in HDF5 1.14.6 and classified
as critical. This issue affects the function H5MM_strndup of the component
Metadata Attribute Decoder. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer
overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been
disclosed to the public and may be used.

Backport patch [2] from upstream to fix CVE-2025-2310

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2310
[2] https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/commit/6c86f97e03c6dc7d7bd2bae9acc422bdc3438ff4

Signed-off-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen.cn@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jinfeng Wang <jinfeng.wang.cn@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@oss.qualcomm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Libo Chen
2026-04-10 15:05:02 +08:00
committed by Anuj Mittal
parent 43572581cf
commit c96f578f10
2 changed files with 38 additions and 0 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
From 89a4466d72f688f4da6521e82a466c183ebe1d08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Libo Chen <libo.chen.cn@windriver.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:05:54 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix CVE-2025-2310
Malformed files can have a zero name-length, which when subtracted lead to an overflow and an out-of-bounds read.
Check that name length is not too small in addition to checking for an overflow directly.
CVE: CVE-2025-2310
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/commit/6c86f97e03c6dc7d7bd2bae9acc422bdc3438ff4]
Signed-off-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen.cn@windriver.com>
---
src/H5Oattr.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/H5Oattr.c b/src/H5Oattr.c
index 6d1d237..7b7ebb0 100644
--- a/src/H5Oattr.c
+++ b/src/H5Oattr.c
@@ -167,6 +167,11 @@ H5O__attr_decode(H5F_t *f, H5O_t *open_oh, unsigned H5_ATTR_UNUSED mesg_flags, u
if (H5_IS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW(p, 2, p_end))
HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_OHDR, H5E_OVERFLOW, NULL, "ran off end of input buffer while decoding");
UINT16DECODE(p, name_len); /* Including null */
+
+ /* Verify that retrieved name length (including null byte) is valid */
+ if (name_len <= 1)
+ HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_OHDR, H5E_CANTDECODE, NULL, "decoded name length is invalid");
+
if (H5_IS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW(p, 2, p_end))
HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_OHDR, H5E_OVERFLOW, NULL, "ran off end of input buffer while decoding");
UINT16DECODE(p, attr->shared->dt_size);
--
2.34.1
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ SRC_URI = " \
file://CVE-2025-6269-CVE-2025-6270-CVE-2025-6516_02.patch \
file://CVE-2025-2926.patch \
file://CVE-2025-2153.patch \
file://CVE-2025-2310.patch \
"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "019ac451d9e1cf89c0482ba2a06f07a46166caf23f60fea5ef3c37724a318e03"