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CVE-2018-11740

N/A
Published: June 5, 2018 at 11:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:36 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorThe Sleuth Kit

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

The Sleuth Kit· Sleuthkit
95%
4.0.2 ≤ v ≤ 4.6.1

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (1)

x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1264

CVSS

5.8MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125

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