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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)

Published Nov 29, 2018

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).

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-125

Out-of-bounds Read

References (6)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 29, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Nov 23, 2018
Link CVE-2018-19497
CISA Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2018-19497
Red Hat
Severity n/a
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Links CVE-2018-19497
ENISA EUVD
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