Guidance Software : Security Vulnerabilities, CVEs, Published In 2007 (Denial of service)

Guidance Software EnCase 5.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption) and possibly have other unspecified impact via a malformed file, related to "EnCase's file system parsing." NOTE: this information is based upon a vague pre-advisory. It might overlap CVE-2007-4036.

Guidance Software EnCase allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service via (1) a corrupted Microsoft Exchange database, which triggers an application crash when many options are selected; (2) a corrupted NTFS filesystem, which causes the application to report "memory allocation errors;" or (3) deeply nested directories, which trigger an application crash during an Expand All action. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of these vectors because the user can select fewer options, there is no operational impact, or the user can do less expansion