Critical
Security advisory
In version 4.8.0 and earlier of The Sleuth Kit (TSK), there is a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the YAFFS file timestamp parsing logic in yaffsfs_istat() in fs/yaffs.c.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-10232
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In version 4.8.0 and earlier of The Sleuth Kit (TSK), there is a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the YAFFS file timestamp parsing logic in yaffsfs_istat() in fs/yaffs.c.
osv:CVE-2020-10232
Complete source record
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