CVE-2018-11740

Publication date 5 June 2018

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.1 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
sleuthkit 26.04 LTS resolute
Vulnerable
25.10 questing Ignored end of life, was needed
25.04 plucky Ignored end of life, was needed
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needed
24.04 LTS noble
Vulnerable
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needed
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needed
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
21.04 hirsute Ignored end of life
20.10 groovy Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable
19.10 eoan Ignored end of life
19.04 disco Ignored end of life
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support, was needed
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.1 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

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