Overview
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 8.1
- Impact score
- 5.2
- Exploitability score
- 2.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.8
- Impact score
- 4.9
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-125
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
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{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:sleuthkit:the_sleuth_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "CE9ACD47-C9E4-498A-9542-7A193E919F9F",
"versionEndIncluding": "4.6.1",
"versionStartIncluding": "4.0.2"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]