Out-of-Bounds Affecting sleuthkit/sleuthkit package, versions [,4.5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SLEUTHKITSLEUTHKIT-2369396
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-13756  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade sleuthkit/sleuthkit to version 4.5.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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