CVE-2007-4197

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2007-4197 · Published 08/08/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-4197 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting the slueth kit (brian carrier).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.9%, higher than 79.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
the slueth kit brian_carrier	`≤ 2.08`	No fix yet

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.

References

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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