CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-17237
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-369
Description
A SIGFPE signal is raised in the function H5D__chunk_set_info_real() of H5Dchunk.c in the HDF HDF5 1.10.3 library during an attempted parse of a crafted HDF file, because of incorrect protection against division by zero. This issue is different from CVE-2018-11207.
Affected configurations
• hdfgroup hdf5 (<= 1.10.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-369 Divide By Zero weakness
References
- https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/blob/master/HDF5/README.md#divided-by-zero---h5d__chunk_set_info_real_div_by_zero Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00009.html lists.debian.org
- https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/blob/master/HDF5/README.md#divided-by-zero---h5d__chunk_set_info_real_div_by_zero Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00009.html lists.debian.org