CVE-2007-4197

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-08-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

icat in Brian Carrier The Sleuth Kit (TSK) before 2.09 omits NULL pointer checks in certain code paths, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) and prevent examination of certain NTFS files via a malformed NTFS image.

Affected products

Brian Carrier The Slueth Kit: through 2.08

References

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=A19F11EF-13CA-4940-AFF3-9BE08F67EE22%40sleuthkit.org
http://www.isecpartners.com/files/iSEC-Breaking_Forensics_Software-Paper.v1_1.BH2007.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474809/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475335/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25181
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=A19F11EF-13CA-4940-AFF3-9BE08F67EE22%40sleuthkit.org
http://www.isecpartners.com/files/iSEC-Breaking_Forensics_Software-Paper.v1_1.BH2007.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474809/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475335/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25181

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