CVE-2018-11740

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.

CVSS v3 8.1 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 5.8 MEDIUM

8.1^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.2

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

5.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 4.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1264	Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:sleuthkit:the_sleuth_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2018-06-05 11:29

Updated : 2024-02-04 19:46

NVD link : CVE-2018-11740

Mitre link : CVE-2018-11740

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2018-11740

JSON object : View

Products Affected

sleuthkit

the_sleuth_kit

CWE

CWE-125

Out-of-bounds Read

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