Guidance Software EnCase Forensic Imager/EnCase Forensic up to 7.10 ReiserFS Image heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in Guidance Software EnCase Forensic Imager and EnCase Forensic up to 7.10. It has been declared as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component ReiserFS Image Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to heap-based overflow. The attack is restricted to local execution. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Guidance Software EnCase Forensic Imager and EnCase Forensic up to 7.10. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component ReiserFS Image Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was disclosed 11/28/2016 by Wolfgang Ettlinger with SEC Consult Unternehmensberatung GmbH as SEC Consult SA-20161128-0 :: DoS & heap-based buffer overflow in Guidance Software EnCase Forensic as confirmed mailinglist post (Bugtraq). The advisory is available at seclists.org. The vendor was not involved in the coordination of the public release. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. Required for exploitation is a single authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed by Wolfgang Ettlinger and been published immediately after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at seclists.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 52 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

The mailinglist post contains the following remark:

Vendor: they will fix the issue later and are fine patching it after advisory release

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• Guidance Software

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• EnCase Forensic
• EnCase Forensic Imager

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• 7.0
• 7.1
• 7.2
• 7.3
• 7.4
• 7.5
• 7.6
• 7.7
• 7.8
• 7.9
• 7.10

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