CVE-2018-17438

MEDIUM

HDF HDF5 <1.10.3 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (1)

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln4#divided-by-zero---poc_h5d__select_io_h5dselect

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Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0036

EPSS Percentile 57.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-369

Status published

Affected Products (1)

hdfgroup/hdf5 < 1.10.3

Timeline

Published Sep 24, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026