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Debian: CVE-2018-17233: hdf5 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-17233: hdf5 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/20/2018
Created
08/10/2023
Added
08/10/2023
Modified
08/10/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-hdf5

References

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