CVE-2007-4196

NameCVE-2007-4196
Descriptionicat in Brian Carrier The Sleuth Kit (TSK) before 2.09 misinterprets a certain memory location as the holder of a loop iteration count, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (long loop) and prevent examination of certain NTFS files via a malformed NTFS image.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
sleuthkit (PTS)buster4.6.5-1+deb10u1fixed
bullseye4.10.1+dfsg-1fixed
bookworm4.11.1+dfsg-1fixed
trixie4.12.1+dfsg-1fixed
sid4.12.1+dfsg-1.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
sleuthkitsource(unstable)2.09-1unimportant

Notes

Labelling this as a security problem is a bit far-fetched.

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