CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-17432

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 24, 2018 | Modified: Nov 09, 2018
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
4.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A NULL pointer dereference in H5O_sdspace_encode() in H5Osdspace.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HDF5 file.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Hdf5 Hdfgroup * 1.10.3 (including)
Hdf5 Ubuntu bionic *
Hdf5 Ubuntu cosmic *
Hdf5 Ubuntu devel *
Hdf5 Ubuntu disco *
Hdf5 Ubuntu eoan *
Hdf5 Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Hdf5 Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Hdf5 Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Hdf5 Ubuntu esm-apps/noble *
Hdf5 Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Hdf5 Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Hdf5 Ubuntu focal *
Hdf5 Ubuntu groovy *
Hdf5 Ubuntu hirsute *
Hdf5 Ubuntu impish *
Hdf5 Ubuntu jammy *
Hdf5 Ubuntu kinetic *
Hdf5 Ubuntu lunar *
Hdf5 Ubuntu mantic *
Hdf5 Ubuntu noble *
Hdf5 Ubuntu oracular *
Hdf5 Ubuntu trusty *
Hdf5 Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Hdf5 Ubuntu upstream *
Hdf5 Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References