{"id":75890,"date":"2026-01-29T01:45:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-24857-bulk_extractor-has-heap-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T01:45:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:15:56","slug":"cve-2026-24857-bulk_extractor-has-heap-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-24857-bulk_extractor-has-heap-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-24857 &#8211; bulk_extractor has Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-24857<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Jan. 28, 2026, 10:15 p.m. | 52\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : `bulk_extractor` is a digital forensics exploitation tool. Starting in version 1.4, `bulk_extractor`\u2019s embedded unrar code has a heap\u2011buffer\u2011overflow in the RAR PPM LZ decoding path. A crafted RAR inside a disk image causes an out\u2011of\u2011bounds write in `Unpack::CopyString`, leading to a crash under ASAN (and likely a crash or memory corruption in production builds). There&#8217;s potential for using this for RCE. As of time of publication, no known patches are available.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 5.5 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-24857 Published : Jan. 28, 2026, 10:15 p.m. | 52\u00a0minutes ago Description : `bulk_extractor` is a digital forensics exploitation tool. Starting in version 1.4, `bulk_extractor`\u2019s embedded unrar code has a heap\u2011buffer\u2011overflow in the RAR PPM LZ decoding path. A crafted RAR inside a disk image causes an out\u2011of\u2011bounds write in `Unpack::CopyString`, leading &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}