CVE-2017-13756 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-13756?

CVE-2017-13756 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 29 Aug 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-13756?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Sleuthkit the Sleuth Kit.

How do I fix CVE-2017-13756?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-13756 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-13756 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13756, GHSA-ppcw-xc94-w633, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13756.