<?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 "&gt;=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>
