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.
References
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https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1264 | Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
Information
Published : 2018-06-05 04:29
Updated : 2018-07-13 07:38
NVD link : CVE-2018-11740
Mitre link : CVE-2018-11740
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CWE
CWE-125
Out-of-bounds Read
Products Affected
sleuthkit
- the_sleuth_kit