CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-11740

8.1 HIGH Published 2018-06-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-06-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• sleuthkit the sleuth kit (>= 4.0.2 <= 4.6.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References