CVE-2018-11740

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-06-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

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.

Affected products

sleuthkit: from 4.0.2 through 4.6.1

References

https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1264
https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1264

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