Medium
Security advisory
A SIGFPE signal is raised in the function H5D__create_chunk_file_map_hyper() of H5Dchunk.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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-17233
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A SIGFPE signal is raised in the function H5D__create_chunk_file_map_hyper() of H5Dchunk.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.
osv:CVE-2018-17233
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:57.662068740Z",
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"references": [
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