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).

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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). (CVE-2018-19497)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3054 advisory.

  - In The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.4.2, opening a crafted ISO 9660 image triggers an out-of-bounds read in     iso9660_proc_dir() in tsk/fs/iso9660_dent.c in libtskfs.a, as demonstrated by fls. (CVE-2017-13755)

  - 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. (CVE-2017-13756)

  - In The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.4.2, fls hangs on a corrupt exfat image in tsk_img_read() in tsk/img/img_io.c in     libtskimg.a. (CVE-2017-13760)

  - 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). (CVE-2018-19497)

  - The Sleuth Kit 4.6.0 and earlier is affected by: Integer Overflow. The impact is: Opening crafted disk     image triggers crash in tsk/fs/hfs_dent.c:237. The component is: Overflow in fls tool used on HFS image.
    Bug is in tsk/fs/hfs.c file in function hfs_cat_traverse() in lines: 952, 1062. The attack vector is:
    Victim must open a crafted HFS filesystem image. (CVE-2019-1010065)

  - In version 4.8.0 and earlier of The Sleuth Kit (TSK), there is a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in     the YAFFS file timestamp parsing logic in yaffsfs_istat() in fs/yaffs.c. (CVE-2020-10232)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Update to 4.6.6 Various bugfixes on the 4.6 branch

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It was discovered that the Sleuth Kit (TSK) through version 4.6.4 is affected by a buffer over-read vulnerability. The tsk_getu16 call in hfs_dir_open_meta_cb (tsk/fs/hfs_dent.c) does not properly check boundaries. This vulnerability might be leveraged by remote attackers using crafted filesystem images to cause denial of service or any other unspecified behavior.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.3-4+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your sleuthkit packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254166	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-19497	Nessus	Misc.	medium
162408	Debian DLA-3054-1 : sleuthkit - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
125657	Fedora 30 : sleuthkit (2019-b860f718ec)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
125653	Fedora 29 : sleuthkit (2019-61b6dae771)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
119730	Debian DLA-1610-1 : sleuthkit security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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