Out-of-bounds Read Affecting sleuthkit/sleuthkit package, versions [4.0.2,4.6.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.31% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SLEUTHKITSLEUTHKIT-2369395
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-11740  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade sleuthkit/sleuthkit to version 4.6.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. An issue was discovered in libtskbase.a in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) from release 4.0.2 through to 4.6.1. An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function tsk_UTF16toUTF8 in tsk/base/tsk_unicode.c which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from unmapped memory causing a denial of service attack.

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