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Divide By Zero

CVE-2018-17233

Severity Medium
Score 6.5/10

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.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-369 - Divide By Zero

The product divides a value by zero.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published