Medium severity · published Nov 29, 2018
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 cause a denial of…
6.5
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 74% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
29; 30 · source: NVD
TS
The Sleuth Kit · Sleuthkit
through 4.6.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19497
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19497
Patch
https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/commit/bc04aa017c0bd297de8a3b7fc40ffc6ddddbb95d
Patch
https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/pull/1374
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00008.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00015.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LZXFYOOMSP7NWRTSO4XXGHXAY3CJNAJ6/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NLSVLDQLPGKRHHBPYUXVJJPAID6CYBXD/
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