cve/2018/CVE-2018-11740.md

### [CVE-2018-11740](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-11740)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1264
- https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1264

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.