CVE-2007-4196: Brian Carrier The Slueth Kit

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

icat 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.

Affected products

• Brian Carrier The Slueth Kit: up to and including 2.08

Published 2007-08-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.