CVE-2025-2308 | HDF5 1.14.6 Scale-Offset Filter H5Z__scaleoffset_decompress_one_byte heap-based overflow
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in HDF5 1.14.6. This affects the function H5Z__scaleoffset_decompress_one_byte of the component Scale-Offset Filter. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow.
This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-2308. An attack has to be approached locally. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.
The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment.
The vendor was contacted early about a batch of vulnerabilities. His response was "reject" without further explanation. We have not received an elaboration even after asking politely for further details. Currently we assume that the vendor wants to "dispute" the entries which is why they are flagged as such until further details become available.