CVE-2007-4195

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2007-4195 · Published 08/08/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-4195 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting the sleuth kit (the sleuth kit).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.1%, higher than 82.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
the sleuth kit the_sleuth_kit	`≤ 2.08`	No fix yet

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in ext2fs.c in Brian Carrier The Sleuth Kit (TSK) before 2.09 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and prevent examination of certain ext2fs files via a malformed ext2fs image.

References

osvdb.org/47000
sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php
isecpartners.com/files/iSEC-Breaking_Forensics_Software-Paper.v1_1.BH2007.pdf
securityfocus.com/archive/1/474809/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/archive/1/475335/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/25181

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