CVE-2018-17237

NameCVE-2018-17237
DescriptionA SIGFPE signal is raised in the function H5D__chunk_set_info_real() of H5Dchunk.c in the HDF HDF5 1.10.3 library during an attempted parse of a crafted HDF file, because of incorrect protection against division by zero. This issue is different from CVE-2018-11207.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3522-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
hdf5 (PTS)bullseye1.10.6+repack-4+deb11u1fixed
bookworm1.10.8+repack1-1fixed
trixie1.10.10+repack-5fixed
sid1.14.5+repack-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
hdf5sourcebuster1.10.4+repack-10+deb10u1DLA-3522-1
hdf5source(unstable)1.10.6+repack-2low

Notes

[stretch] - hdf5 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - hdf5 <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/blob/master/HDF5/README.md#divided-by-zero---h5d__chunk_set_info_real_div_by_zero
https://jira.hdfgroup.org/browse/HDFFV-10571 (not public)
does not appear in 1.10.5 release notes, but fixed in
https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/commits/4e31361dad4add06792b652dbe5b97e501f9031d

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