CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-17438

Divide By Zero

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 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.

Weakness

The product divides a value by zero.

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 *

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