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medium 6.5

CVE-2018-17233 json

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…

published 2018-09-20 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-8993

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

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.

Patch / fix

  • hdf5 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.10.6+repack-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17233

  • hdf5 Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1.8.11-5ubuntu7.1+esm2
  • hdf5 Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.8.16+docs-4ubuntu1.1+esm2
  • hdf5 Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1.10.0-patch1+docs-4ubuntu0.1~esm2
  • hdf5 Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 1.10.4+repack-11ubuntu1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17233

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • suse-hpc SLE Module for HPC 12 0.5.20220206.0c6b168-5.2
  • hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc SLE Module for HPC 12 1.10.8-3.12.2
  • hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc SLE Module for HPC 12 1.10.8-3.12.2
  • hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi1-hpc SLE Module for HPC 12 1.10.8-3.12.2
  • suse-hpc SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS 0.5.20220206.0c6b168-150000.11.3.1
  • hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS 1.10.8-150000.8.4.3
  • hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS 1.10.8-150000.8.4.3
  • hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS 1.10.8-150000.8.4.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:1933-1SUSE-SU-2022:1911-1SUSE-SU-2022:1910-1SUSE-SU-2022:1903-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-17233 updated cvss 4.3

hdf5: SIGFPE signal in H5D__create_chunk_file_map_hyper() of H5Dchunk.c

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) hdf5 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) hdf5 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) hdf5
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) hdf5
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) hdf5 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky) hdf5
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln2#divided-by-zero---h5d__create_chunk_file_map_hyper_div_zero referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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