Out-of-bounds Read Affecting sleuthkit package, versions <4.1.3-4+deb8u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.61% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-SLEUTHKIT-385746
  • published2 Dec 2018
  • disclosed29 Nov 2018

Introduced: 29 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19497  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 sleuthkit to version 4.1.3-4+deb8u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sleuthkit package and not the sleuthkit package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In The Sleuth Kit (TSK) through 4.6.4, hfs_cat_traverse in tsk/fs/hfs.c does not properly determine when a key length is too large, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (SEGV on unknown address with READ memory access in a tsk_getu16 call in hfs_dir_open_meta_cb in tsk/fs/hfs_dent.c).

CVSS Scores

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