CVE-2026-24857

CVE-2026-24857 affects bulk_extractor (bulk extractor). Starting in version 1.4, the embedded unrar code has a heap-buffer-overflow in the RAR PPM LZ decoding path. A crafted RAR inside a disk image can trigger an out-of-bounds write in Unpack::CopyString, causing a crash under ASAN and likely me...

Building bulk_extractor security vulnerabilities

Building bulkextractor is a high-performance digital forensics analysis tool developed by Simson L. Garfinkel. Versions of Building bulkextractor 1.4 and later contain security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stem from an overflow in the heap buffer in the embedded unrar code’s RAR PPM LZ...