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CVE-2018-17438

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 1.74% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-09-24 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

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CVE
CVE-2018-17438
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
1.74%
F5

Original NVD Description

A SIGFPE signal is raised in the function H5D__select_io() of H5Dselect.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.