CVE-2007-2799: File

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the "file" program 4.20, when running on 32-bit systems, as used in products including The Sleuth Kit, might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large file that triggers an overflow that bypasses an assert() statement. NOTE: this issue is due to an incorrect patch for CVE-2007-1536.

Affected products

• File File: version 4.2 only
• Sleuth Kit The Sleuth Kith: any version

Published 2007-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.