Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sleuthkit  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-SLEUTHKIT-660566
  • published29 Aug 2017
  • disclosed29 Aug 2017

Introduced: 29 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-13756  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sleuthkit package and not the sleuthkit package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.4.2, opening a crafted disk image triggers infinite recursion in dos_load_ext_table() in tsk/vs/dos.c in libtskvs.a, as demonstrated by mmls.