CVE-2018-17438: A SIGFPE signal is raised in the function H5D__select_io() of H5Dselect.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library during an attempted parse of a crafted HDF…

PriorityP427medium6.5CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH

EPSS

1.74%

75.2th percentile

A SIGFPE signal is raised in the function H5D__select_io() of H5Dselect.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library during an attempted parse of a crafted HDF file, because of incorrect protection against division by zero. It could allow a remote denial of service attack.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	hdf5	< hdf5 1.10.6+repack-1 (bookworm)	hdf5 1.10.6+repack-1 (bookworm)
hdfgroup	hdf5	<= 1.10.3	—
hdfgroup	hdf5	>= 0 < 1.10.6+repack-1	1.10.6+repack-1
hdfgroup	hdf5	>= 0 < 1.10.6+repack-1	1.10.6+repack-1
hdfgroup	hdf5	>= 0 < 1.10.6+repack-1	1.10.6+repack-1
hdfgroup	hdf5	>= 0 < 1.10.6+repack-1	1.10.6+repack-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.06.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv6.5MEDIUM

vendor_debian6.5LOW

vendor_redhat6.5MEDIUM

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