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CVE-2018-17434

Published: 24 September 2018

A SIGFPE signal is raised in the function apply_filters() of h5repack_filters.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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
hdf5
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needed

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Needed

kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Needed

jammy Needed

impish Ignored
(end of life)
lunar Not vulnerable
(1.10.8+repack-1ubuntu1)
groovy Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Needed

upstream
Released (1.10.5)
mantic Not vulnerable
(1.10.8+repack-1ubuntu1)
Patches:
upstream: https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/commits/02d03b4624122955ee3de635699a4e3880fea377

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H