Divide By Zero Affecting hdf5 package, versions <1.10.0-patch1+docs-4ubuntu0.1~esm2
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- published19 Aug 2025
- disclosed20 Sept 2018
Introduced: 20 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-17237 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 hdf5 to version 1.10.0-patch1+docs-4ubuntu0.1~esm2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hdf5 package and not the hdf5 package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
A 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.