Buffer overflow in Guidance Software Encase

CVE-2007-4037

Guidance Software EnCase allows user-assisted attackers to trigger a buffer over-read and application crash via a malformed NTFS filesystem containing a modified FILE record with a certain large offset. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this issue, asserting that relevant attackers typically do not corrupt a filesystem, and indicating that the relevant read operation can be disabled

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.012 (66.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Guidance_software Encase
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)