<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200710-19"> <title>The Sleuth Kit: Integer underflow</title> <synopsis> An integer underflow vulnerability has been reported in The Sleuth Kit allowing for the user-assisted execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">sleuthkit</product> <announced>2007-10-18</announced> <revised count="01">2007-10-18</revised> <bug>181977</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="app-forensics/sleuthkit" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.0.9</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.9</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> The Sleuth Kit is a collection of file system and media management forensic analysis tools. </p> </background> <description> <p> Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux reported an integer underflow in the file_printf() function of the "file" utility which is bundled with The Sleuth Kit (CVE-2007-1536, GLSA 200703-26). Note that Gentoo is not affected by the improper fix for this vulnerability (identified as CVE-2007-2799, see GLSA 200705-25) since version 4.20 of "file" was never shipped with The Sleuth Kit ebuilds. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could entice a user to run The Sleuth Kit on a file system containing a specially crafted file that would trigger a heap-based buffer overflow possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the user running The Sleuth Kit. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All The Sleuth Kit users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-forensics/sleuthkit-2.0.9"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1536">CVE-2007-1536</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2799">CVE-2007-2799</uri> <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-26.xml">GLSA 200703-26</uri> <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-25.xml">GLSA 200705-25</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-09-29T13:59:12Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-09-29T13:59:20Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-10-07T23:47:34Z"> rbu </metadata> </glsa>