The Sleuth Kit Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-45639

OS Command injection vulnerability in sleuthkit fls tool 4.11.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted value to the m parameter. NOTE: third parties have disputed this because there is no analysis showing that the backtick command executes outside the context of the user...

CVE-2018-11737

An issue was discovered in libtskfs.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 ntfs_fix_idxrec in tsk/fs/ntfs_dent.cpp which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from.....

CVE-2018-11740

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...

CVE-2018-11739

An issue was discovered in libtskimg.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 raw_read in tsk/img/raw.c which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from unmapped...

CVE-2018-11738

An issue was discovered in libtskfs.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 ntfs_make_data_run in tsk/fs/ntfs.c which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from...

CVE-2020-10232

In version 4.8.0 and earlier of The Sleuth Kit (TSK), there is a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the YAFFS file timestamp parsing logic in yaffsfs_istat() in...

CVE-2020-10233

In version 4.8.0 and earlier of The Sleuth Kit (TSK), there is a heap-based buffer over-read in ntfs_dinode_lookup in...

CVE-2019-14531

An issue was discovered in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.6.6. There is an out of bounds read on iso9660 while parsing System Use Sharing Protocol data in...

CVE-2019-14532

An issue was discovered in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.6.6. There is an off-by-one overwrite due to an underflow on tools/hashtools/hfind.cpp while using a bogus hash...

CVE-2019-1010065

The Sleuth Kit 4.6.0 and earlier is affected by: Integer Overflow. The impact is: Opening crafted disk image triggers crash in tsk/fs/hfs_dent.c:237. The component is: Overflow in fls tool used on HFS image. Bug is in tsk/fs/hfs.c file in function hfs_cat_traverse() in lines: 952, 1062. The attack....

CVE-2018-19497

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...

CVE-2017-13760

In The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.4.2, fls hangs on a corrupt exfat image in tsk_img_read() in tsk/img/img_io.c in...

CVE-2017-13755

In The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.4.2, opening a crafted ISO 9660 image triggers an out-of-bounds read in iso9660_proc_dir() in tsk/fs/iso9660_dent.c in libtskfs.a, as demonstrated by...

CVE-2017-13756

In The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.4.2, opening a crafted disk image triggers infinite recursion in dos_load_ext_table() in tsk/vs/dos.c in libtskvs.a, as demonstrated by...

CVE-2012-5619

The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.0.1 does not properly handle "." (dotfile) file system entries in FAT file systems and other file systems for which . is not a reserved name, which allows local users to hide activities it more difficult to conduct forensics activities, as demonstrated by...

CVE-2007-4195

Use-after-free vulnerability in ext2fs.c in Brian Carrier The Sleuth Kit (TSK) before 2.09 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and prevent examination of certain ext2fs files via a malformed ext2fs...

CVE-2007-4199

Brian Carrier The Sleuth Kit (TSK) before 2.09 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and prevent examination of certain NTFS files via a malformed NTFS image that triggers (1) dereference of a certain integer value by ntfs_dent.c in fls, or (2)...

CVE-2007-4196

icat in Brian Carrier The Sleuth Kit (TSK) before 2.09 misinterprets a certain memory location as the holder of a loop iteration count, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (long loop) and prevent examination of certain NTFS files via a malformed NTFS...

CVE-2007-4198

The fs_data_put_str function in ntfs.c in fls in Brian Carrier The Sleuth Kit (TSK) before 2.09 does not validate a certain length value, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and prevent examination of certain NTFS files via a malformed NTFS.....

CVE-2007-4200

ntfs.c in fsstat in Brian Carrier The Sleuth Kit (TSK) before 2.09 interprets a certain variable as a byte count rather than a count of 32-bit integers, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and prevent examination of certain NTFS files via a.....

CVE-2007-4197

icat in Brian Carrier The Sleuth Kit (TSK) before 2.09 omits NULL pointer checks in certain code paths, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) and prevent examination of certain NTFS files via a malformed NTFS...

CVE-2007-2799

Integer overflow in the "file" program 4.20, when running on 32-bit systems, as used in products including The Sleuth Kit, might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large file that triggers an overflow that bypasses an assert() statement. NOTE: this issue is due to an...