CVE-2026-120453 The Sleuth Kit through 4.15.0 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via HFS+ decmpfs Header

The Sleuth Kit through 4.15.0 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in hfsloadextendedattrs in tsk/fs/hfs.c that reads the decmpfs header without checking attribute length. Attackers can supply a crafted HFS+ image with a com.apple.decmpfs attrsize of 1 to 15 to read past the allocatio...

CVE-2026-120453

The Sleuth Kit through version 4.15.0 is vulnerable to a heap out-of-bounds read in the hfs_load_extended_attrs() function located in tsk/fs/hfs.c. The flaw occurs because the application fails to validate the attribute length when reading the decmpfs header . An attacker can exploit this by prov...