CVE-2018-17233 (GCVE-0-2018-17233)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-20 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:47
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Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2018-09-20 00:00
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