CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-5619
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-09-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.0.1 does not properly handle "." (dotfile) file system entries in FAT file systems and other file systems for which . is not a reserved name, which allows local users to hide activities it more difficult to conduct forensics activities, as demonstrated by Flame.
Affected configurations
• sleuthkit the sleuth kit 4.0.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://labs.bitdefender.com/2012/06/flame-the-story-of-leaked-data-carried-by-human-vector/ labs.bitdefender.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/097289.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/097293.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:125 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/01/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/04/2 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883330 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://labs.bitdefender.com/2012/06/flame-the-story-of-leaked-data-carried-by-human-vector/ labs.bitdefender.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/097289.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/097293.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:125 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/01/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/04/2 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883330 bugzilla.redhat.com