Vulnerability CVE-2018-17237

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2018-17237 (CCN-150506)

Assigned:

2018-09-04

Published:

2018-09-04

Updated:

2018-11-21

Summary:

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.

CVSS v3 Severity:

6.5 Medium (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
5.7 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:U/RC:R)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): High

3.3 Low (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
2.9 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:U/RC:R)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Low

CVSS v2 Severity:

4.3 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Medium Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Partial

1.7 Low (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Local Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Partial

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-369

Vulnerability Consequences:

Denial of Service

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2018-17237

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
hdf-cve201817237-dos(150506)

Source: CCN
Type: GitHub Web site
Divided By Zero - H5D__chunk_set_info_real_div_by_zero

Source: MISC
Type: Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/blob/master/HDF5/README.md#divided-by-zero---h5d__chunk_set_info_real_div_by_zero

Source: CCN
Type: HDF Web site
HDF Support Portal

Source: CCN
Type: WhiteSource Vulnerability Database
CVE-2018-17237

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version <= 1.10.3)

Denotes that component is vulnerable

Oval Definitions

Definition ID	Class	Title	Last Modified
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1206	P	Security update for hdf5 (Important)	2022-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:508	P	Security update for hdf5 (Important)	2022-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1521	P	Security update for hdf5 (Important)	2022-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:118918	P	Security update for hdf5 (Important)	2022-06-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:118728	P	Security update for hdf5 (Important)	2022-06-01
oval:com.ubuntu.disco:def:2018172370000000	V	CVE-2018-17237 on Ubuntu 19.04 (disco) - low.	2018-09-20
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:201817237000	V	CVE-2018-17237 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - low.	2018-09-20
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:2018172370000000	V	CVE-2018-17237 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - low.	2018-09-20
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201817237000	V	CVE-2018-17237 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - low.	2018-09-20
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:2018172370000000	V	CVE-2018-17237 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - low.	2018-09-20
oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:201817237000	V	CVE-2018-17237 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - low.	2018-09-20
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:2018172370000000	V	CVE-2018-17237 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.	2018-09-20
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201817237000	V	CVE-2018-17237 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.	2018-09-20

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