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CVE-2026-24857

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.8 Published: 2026-01-28 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

`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.

Affected Platforms

Simsong Bulk Extractor

Weakness Type

CWE-122, CWE-787

References