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bulk_extractor has Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability

`bulk_extractor` is a digital forensics exploitation tool. Starting in version 1.4, `bulk_extractor`’s embedded unrar code has a heap‑buffer‑overflow in the RAR PPM LZ decoding path. A crafted RAR inside a disk image causes an out‑of‑bounds write in `Unpack::CopyString`, leading to a crash under ASAN (and likely a crash or memory corruption in production builds). There's potential for using this for RCE. As of time of publication, no known patches are available.

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bulk_extractor
  • ==>= 1.4, <= 2.1.1

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pkgs.bulk_extractor

Digital forensics tool for extracting information from file systems

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