Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in The Sleuth Kit (TSK)

CVE-2018-11740 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

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.

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