PT-2018-3950 · Hdf+2 · Hdf5+2

Published 2018-09-24 · Updated 2022-06-08 · CVE-2018-17438

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HDF5 versions through 1.10.3

Description The issue is related to a lack of protection against division by zero in the H5Dselect.c component of the HDF5 library. This could allow a remote denial of service attack by exploiting the vulnerability with a specially crafted HDF file.

Recommendations For versions through 1.10.3, consider updating to a version that addresses the division by zero issue in the H5D select io() function to prevent potential remote denial of service attacks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Divide By Zero

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-369

Related Identifiers

BDU:2023-07614

CVE-2018-17438

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

Astra Linux

Hdf5

Suse

References · 133

• 🔥 https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln4#divided-by-zero---poc_h5d__select_io_h5dselect · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln4#divided-by-zero---poc_apply_filters_h5repack_filters · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/Twi1ight/fuzzing-pocs/tree/master/hdf5 · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-07648 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17438 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=283904092 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-07611 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:1910-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:1903-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-07614 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:1912-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:1933-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17438 · Security Note