CVE catalog
CVE-2018-11740
sleuthkit: CVE-2018-11740
- Severity
- Low · CVSS 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 1.28% · Oct 27, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | sleuthkit | sid | 4.15.0+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | sleuthkit | forky | 4.14.0+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | sleuthkit | trixie | 4.12.1+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
| Debian | sleuthkit | bookworm | 4.11.1+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | sleuthkit | source | sid | (unfixed) | unimportant | Not reported | [902187] |
| Debian | sleuthkit | source | forky | (unfixed) | unimportant | Not reported | [902187] |
| Debian | sleuthkit | source | trixie | (unfixed) | unimportant | Not reported | [902187] |
| Debian | sleuthkit | source | bookworm | (unfixed) | unimportant | Not reported | [902187] |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [libtsk19]Affected
Source package: [sleuthkit]
Details (2)
4.11.1+dfsg-1+b1· amd64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · sleuthkit · debian · bookworm; dsa · sleuthkit · debian · 12
4.11.1+dfsg-1+b1· arm64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · sleuthkit · debian · bookworm; dsa · sleuthkit · debian · 12
- [libtsk-dev]Affected
Source package: [sleuthkit]
Details (2)
4.11.1+dfsg-1+b1· amd64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · sleuthkit · debian · bookworm; dsa · sleuthkit · debian · 12
4.11.1+dfsg-1+b1· arm64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · sleuthkit · debian · bookworm; dsa · sleuthkit · debian · 12
- [sleuthkit]Affected
Source package: [sleuthkit]
Details (2)
4.11.1+dfsg-1+b1· amd64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · sleuthkit · debian · bookworm; dsa · sleuthkit · debian · 12
4.11.1+dfsg-1+b1· arm64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · sleuthkit · debian · bookworm; dsa · sleuthkit · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [libtsk19t64]Affected
Source package: [sleuthkit]
Details (2)
4.12.1+dfsg-3· amd64 · trixieAffected
dsa · sleuthkit · debian · 13
4.12.1+dfsg-3· arm64 · trixieAffected
dsa · sleuthkit · debian · 13
- [libtsk-dev]Affected
Source package: [sleuthkit]
Details (2)
4.12.1+dfsg-3· amd64 · trixieAffected
dsa · sleuthkit · debian · 13
4.12.1+dfsg-3· arm64 · trixieAffected
dsa · sleuthkit · debian · 13
- [sleuthkit]Affected
Details (2)
4.12.1+dfsg-3· amd64 · trixieAffected
dsa · sleuthkit · debian · 13
4.12.1+dfsg-3· arm64 · trixieAffected
dsa · sleuthkit · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11740]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11740]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2018/cve-2018-11740.json]
[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database] · [Red Hat security advisories and VEX]