Bug 1524910 (CVE-2017-17508) - CVE-2017-17508 hdf5: Divide-by-zero in the H5T_set_loc function
Summary: CVE-2017-17508 hdf5: Divide-by-zero in the H5T_set_loc function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-17508
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1524917 1524918 1524919 1530408
Blocks: 1524924
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-12-12 10:00 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:33:59 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-12-12 10:00:22 UTC 
In HDF5 1.10.1, there is a divide-by-zero vulnerability in the function H5T_set_loc in the H5T.c file in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

References:

https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/hdf5
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-12-12 10:02:47 UTC 
Created hdf5 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1524917]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1524918]
Affects: openshift-1 [bug 1524919]
Comment 2 Joshua Padman 2017-12-20 04:11:25 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Whilst the package shipped with Red Hat OpenStack contains the vulnerable code, the packages that use HDF5 do not expose the vulnerable functionality.
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