Vulnerability CVE-2018-19497
Published: 2018-11-29   Modified: 2018-11-30

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).

Type:

CWE-125

 (Out-of-bounds Read)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Sleuthkit -> The sleuth kit 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/commit/bc04aa017c0bd297de8a3b7fc40ffc6ddddbb95d
https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/pull/1374
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00008.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LZXFYOOMSP7NWRTSO4XXGHXAY3CJNAJ6/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NLSVLDQLPGKRHHBPYUXVJJPAID6CYBXD/
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