Out-of-bounds Read Affecting sleuthkit/sleuthkit package, versions [,4.6.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.52% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SLEUTHKITSLEUTHKIT-2369401
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Nov 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade sleuthkit/sleuthkit to version 4.6.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. 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 Base Scores

version 3.1