>> Kerio Personal Firewall Hooked Functions Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Title : Kerio Personal Firewall Hooked Functions Local Denial of Service Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-3872 CVE ID : CVE-2006-5153
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : No Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-10-03
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Kerio Personal Firewall, which could be exploited by malicious users to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to errors in "fwdrv.sys" and "khips.sys" when handling "NtCreateFile()", "NtDeleteFile()", "NtLoadDriver()", "NtMapViewOfSection()", "NtOpenFile()", and "NtSetInformationFile()" functions with malformed parameters, which could be exploited by local attackers to crash a vulnerable system.
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