CVE-2017-17508: Hdfgroup HDF5

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Hdfgroup HDF5: version 1.10.1 only

Published 2017-12-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.