CVE-2018-11740

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-11740
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-05 11:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-07-13 14:38:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sleuthkit The Sleuth Kit All All All All

References

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AddressSanitizer: user-after-free (UAF) and out-of-bounds read (OOB) in tsk_UTF16toUTF8 (tsk/base/tsk_unicode.c:159:14) · Issue #1264 · sleuthkit/sleuthkit · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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