First published: Wed Aug 08 2007(Updated: )
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 NTFS files via a malformed NTFS image that triggers (1) dereference of a certain integer value by ntfs_dent.c in fls, or (2) dereference of a certain other integer value by ntfs.c in fsstat.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Brian Carrier The slueth Kit | <=2.08 | |
The Sleuth Kit | <=2.08 |
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CVE-2007-4199 has a moderate severity level due to its potential to cause denial of service through application crashes.
To fix CVE-2007-4199, upgrade The Sleuth Kit to version 2.09 or later.
The consequences of CVE-2007-4199 include application crashes preventing the examination of certain NTFS files.
Users of The Sleuth Kit version 2.08 and earlier are affected by CVE-2007-4199.
CVE-2007-4199 involves user-assisted remote attackers leveraging malformed NTFS images.