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>> Zone Labs ZoneAlarm Personal Firewalls Security Bypass Weakness

Title : Zone Labs ZoneAlarm Personal Firewalls Security Bypass Weakness
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1919
CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-10-01


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A weakness has been identified in Zone Labs ZoneAlarm, which could be exploited to bypass certain security policies. This issue is due to a design error when handling DDE-IPC (Direct Data Exchange – Interprocess Communications), which could be exploited by a malicious program to access the network via a trusted program without warning from the firewall.

Affected Products

ZoneAlarm free versions

Solution

Upgrade to ZoneAlarm products version 6.0 or enable the "Advanced Program Control" feature.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1919
http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/securityAlert/35.html
http://hackingspirits.com/vuln-rnd/vuln-rnd.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Debasis Mohanty

ChangeLog

2005-10-01 : Initial release

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