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 file, because of incorrect protection against division by zero. It could allow a remote denial of service attack.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-09-24

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-369

Affected products

• Hdf5 (Hdfgroup)

References

• https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln4#divided-by-zero---poc_h5d__select_io_h5dselect