CVE-2018-17438

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

EPSS

2%p76

Published

Sep 24, 2018 (Sep 24, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

A SIGFPE signal is raised in the function H5D__select_io() of H5Dselect.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.

Vendors: hdfgroup
Products: hdf5
Weakness: CWE-369
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.7%)

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