CVE-2007-4037 (GCVE-0-2007-4037)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-07-27 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:37 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
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
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2166 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2007-07-26 00:00
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