CVE-2017-13756

MEDIUM

Sleuthkit The Sleuth Kit - Infinite Loop

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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 mmls.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/914
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00015.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 43.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-835
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
sleuthkit/the_sleuth_kit 4.4.2
Published Aug 29, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026