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CVE-2018-19497
published 2018-11-29

CVE-2018-19497: In The Sleuth Kit (TSK) through 4.6.4, hfs_cat_traverse in tsk/fs/hfs.c does not properly determine when a key length is too large, which allows attackers to…

PriorityP427medium6.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH
EPSS
1.52%
71.7th percentile
In The Sleuth Kit (TSK) through 4.6.4, hfs_cat_traverse in tsk/fs/hfs.c does not properly determine when a key length is too large, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (SEGV on unknown address with READ memory access in a tsk_getu16 call in hfs_dir_open_meta_cb in tsk/fs/hfs_dent.c).

Affected

10 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiandebian_linux
debiandebian_linux
debiansleuthkit< sleuthkit 4.6.5-1 (bookworm)sleuthkit 4.6.5-1 (bookworm)
fedoraprojectfedora
fedoraprojectfedora
sleuthkitsleuthkit>= 0 < 4.6.5-14.6.5-1
sleuthkitsleuthkit>= 0 < 4.6.5-14.6.5-1
sleuthkitsleuthkit>= 0 < 4.6.5-14.6.5-1
sleuthkitsleuthkit>= 0 < 4.6.5-14.6.5-1
sleuthkitthe_sleuth_kit<= 4.6.4

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv6.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian6.5LOW
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