What is CVE-2017-13756?

CVE-2017-13756 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sleuthkit The Sleuth Kit, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-08-29.

How severe is CVE-2017-13756?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Sleuthkit The Sleuth Kit

CVE-2017-13756

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.

Published 2017-08-29 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (51.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 51st percentile — 51.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Sleuthkit The Sleuth Kit — versions 4.4.2
Debian Linux — versions 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/914 (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00015.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-13756?: CVE-2017-13756 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sleuthkit The Sleuth Kit, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-08-29.
How severe is CVE-2017-13756?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.