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CVE-2007-4037

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—

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

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Guidance Software — Encase

CWEs

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