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High severity8.1OSV Advisory· Published Jun 5, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-11740

CVE-2018-11740

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.

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Affected products

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  • Sleuthkit/SleuthkitOSV
    Range: sleuthkit-4.0.2, sleuthkit-4.6.1
  • Sleuthkit/The Sleuth Kit2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:sleuthkit:the_sleuth_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:sleuthkit:the_sleuth_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=4.0.2,<=4.6.1
    • (no CPE)range: >=4.0.2, <=4.6.1

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