Vulnerability in hdf5 (DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17233)

Summary

Vulnerability in hdf5 (DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17233). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 1.10.6+repack-2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

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A vulnerability tracked as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17233 has been found in hdf5.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade hdf5 to 1.10.6+repack-2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "hdf5 DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17233" on the vendor's site.

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17233 (hdf5)
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated
Patched: 1.10.6+repack-2 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in hdf5.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of hdf5.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 1.10.6+repack-2.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'hdf5' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'hdf5' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で hdf5 を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade hdf5 to 1.10.6+repack-2
```
ステージング環境で 1.10.6+repack-2 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Debian:12 hdf5

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.10.6+repack-2"}]}]

Debian:13 hdf5

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.10.6+repack-2"}]}]

Debian:14 hdf5

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.10.6+repack-2"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org