CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-4037
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-07-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
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
Affected configurations
• guidance software encase
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-07/bh-usa-07-speakers.html#Palmer www.blackhat.com
- http://www.isecpartners.com/files/iSEC-Breaking_Forensics_Software-Paper.v1_1.BH2007.pdf www.isecpartners.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474727/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474750/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474809/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475335/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25100 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-07/bh-usa-07-speakers.html#Palmer www.blackhat.com
- http://www.isecpartners.com/files/iSEC-Breaking_Forensics_Software-Paper.v1_1.BH2007.pdf www.isecpartners.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474727/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474750/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474809/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475335/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25100 www.securityfocus.com