PT-2017-14819 · Hdf+2 · Hdf5+2

Published 2017-12-11 · Updated 2022-06-03 · CVE-2017-17508

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HDF5 version 1.10.1

Description The issue is related to a divide-by-zero error in the H5T set loc function, located in the H5T.c file within libhdf5.a. This can cause applications like h5dump to crash when opening a specially crafted HDF5 file.

Recommendations For HDF5 version 1.10.1, consider avoiding the use of the H5T set loc function until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the opening of untrusted HDF5 files to prevent potential crashes.

Exploit

Fix

Divide By Zero

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-369

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-17508

SUSE-SU-2022:1903-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1910-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1911-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1933-1

USN-4817-1

Affected Products

Hdf5

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 95

• 🔥 https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/blob/master/hdf5/readme.md · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/readme.md · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17508 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17508 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4817-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:1911-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17508 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17508 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17505 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17508 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:1910-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:1903-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17508 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17508 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17506 · Security Note