| Name | CVE-2018-17438 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| hdf5 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.8.13+docs-15+deb8u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1.10.0-patch1+docs-3+deb9u2 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1.10.4+repack-10+deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 1.10.6+repack-4+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.10.8+repack1-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.10.10+repack-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| hdf5 | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| hdf5 | source | (unstable) | 1.10.6+repack-1 | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln4#divided-by-zero---poc_h5d__select_io_h5dselect
https://jira.hdfgroup.org/browse/HDFFV-10587
fix in develop branch: https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/commits/7add52ff4f2443357648d53d52add274d1b18b5f
Negligible security impact