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Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-11738): sleuthkit vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 5, 2018
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jun 26, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in libtskfs.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 ntfs_make_data_run in tsk/fs/ntfs.c which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from unmapped memory causing a denial of service attack.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
Title
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