# CVE-2007-4199: Brian Carrier The Sleuth Kit (TSK) before 2.09 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and pr

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2007-08-08 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

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## References

- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474809/100/0/threaded
- http://osvdb.org/46997
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25181
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475335/100/0/threaded
- 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

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