PT-2018-14026 · Hdf+2 · Hdf5+2

Published 2018-09-24 · Updated 2022-06-08 · CVE-2018-17432

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 versions prior to 1.10.4

Description A NULL pointer dereference issue exists in the H5O sdspace encode() function, located in the H5Osdspace.c file of the HDF5 library. This issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service by providing a crafted HDF5 file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.10.4, update to version 1.10.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

BDU:2025-12511

CVE-2018-17432

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_1912-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1903-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1910-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1911-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1912-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1933-1

Affected Products

Debian

Hdf5

Suse

References · 135

• 🔥 https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln6#null-pointer-dereference-in-h5o_sdspace_encode · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln4#divided-by-zero---poc_apply_filters_h5repack_filters · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln4#divided-by-zero---poc_h5d__select_io_h5dselect · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/Twi1ight/fuzzing-pocs/tree/master/hdf5 · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-12511 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17432 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17432 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-01531 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-07611 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2024-07118 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17432 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-17432 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-01530 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2024-07153 · Security Note
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se17-bulletin-2025-0923SE17 · Vendor Advisory