CVE-2018-19497 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2018-19497?

CVE-2018-19497 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 29 Nov 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

In The Sleuth Kit (TSK) through 4.6.4, hfs_cat_traverse in tsk/fs/hfs.c does not properly determine when a key length is too large, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (SEGV on unknown address with READ memory access in a tsk_getu16 call in hfs_dir_open_meta_cb in tsk/fs/hfs_dent.c).

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-19497?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Sleuthkit the Sleuth Kit.

How do I fix CVE-2018-19497?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2018-19497 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-19497 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-2018-19497, DLA-1610-1, GHSA-98j9-86q7-c5r2, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19497.