High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-11738
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2018-11738
Complete source record
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