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.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | sleuthkit | No fix yet | — |
| Debian 13 | sleuthkit | No fix yet | — |
| Debian 12 | sleuthkit | No fix yet | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | sleuthkit | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | sleuthkit | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 25.10 | sleuthkit | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | sleuthkit | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | sleuthkit | No fix yet | — |
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | sleuthkit | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | sleuthkit | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS | sleuthkit | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS | sleuthkit | No fix yet | — |