VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-17438

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.74%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-09-24
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-369: Divide By Zero

Primary references