VDB
CVE-2018-11740
CVE-2018-11740
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 0.30% · 53.1th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.30%
53.1th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS | sleuthkit | 0, 3.2.3-2.2, 3.2.3-2.2ubuntu0.1~esm1 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | sleuthkit | 0, 4.12.1+dfsg-1.1ubuntu2, * |
| Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS | sleuthkit | 4.1.3-12ubuntu1, 4.1.3-11ubuntu2, 0 |
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | sleuthkit | 4.4.2-1, 4.4.2-3, 0 |
| Ubuntu:20.04:LTS | sleuthkit | 0, 4.6.7-1build1, 4.6.7-1 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | sleuthkit | 4.11.0+dfsg-1, 4.11.1+dfsg-1, * |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | sleuthkit | 4.12.1+dfsg-1.1ubuntu1, 4.12.1+dfsg-1, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
Timeline
- Jun 5, 2018 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-11740 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1264 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11740 third-party-advisory