UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17233

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17233

    Published: 20 Sept 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-17233
    Aliases:
    USN-5272-1

    Summary:

    Details: A SIGFPE signal is raised in the function H5D__create_chunk_file_map_hyper() of H5Dchunk.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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17233, https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln2#divided-by-zero---h5d__create_chunk_file_map_hyper_div_zero, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5272-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17233

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: hdf5

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm2?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.8.11-5ubuntu7.1+esm2

    Affected versions

    1.8.11-3ubuntu1
    1.8.11-5ubuntu1
    1.8.11-5ubuntu2
    1.8.11-5ubuntu6
    1.8.11-5ubuntu7
    1.8.11-5ubuntu7.1
    1.8.11-5ubuntu7.1+esm1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High