CVE-2018-17434

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    CVE-2018-17434

    Published: 24 Sept 2018Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00009.html, https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln4#divided-by-zero---poc_apply_filters_h5repack_filters

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    hdf5-1_10_2

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