sleuthkit — security advisory
An issue was discovered in libtskimg.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 raw_read in tsk/img/raw.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
- sleuthkit
- Affected versions
- 4.11.1+dfsg-1, 4.12.0+dfsg-1, 4.12.1+dfsg-1, 4.12.1+dfsg-1.1, 4.12.1+dfsg-1.1~exp1, 4.12.1+dfsg-2, 4.12.1+dfsg-3, 4.14.0+dfsg-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-11739
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in libtskimg.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 raw_read in tsk/img/raw.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:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11739
sleuthkit
Fixed versions: Not specified
sleuthkit
Fixed versions: Not specified
sleuthkit
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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