Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU37125

Division by zero in HDF5 - CVE-2018-11203

Published: May 16, 2018 / Updated: March 9, 2023

Vulnerability identifier: #VU37125

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11203

CWE-ID: CWE-369

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: HDF Group

Affected software:
HDF5

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a division by zero error within . A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and crash it.

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