CVE-2007-4037

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-07-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: 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 products

Guidance Software Encase: all versions

References

http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-07/bh-usa-07-speakers.html#Palmer
http://www.isecpartners.com/files/iSEC-Breaking_Forensics_Software-Paper.v1_1.BH2007.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474727/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474750/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474809/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475335/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25100
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-07/bh-usa-07-speakers.html#Palmer
http://www.isecpartners.com/files/iSEC-Breaking_Forensics_Software-Paper.v1_1.BH2007.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474727/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474750/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474809/100/0/threaded

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