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>> Outpost Firewall Pro Hooked Functions Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : Outpost Firewall Pro Hooked Functions Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4537
CVE ID : CVE-2006-7160
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-11-16
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A vulnerability has been identified in Outpost Firewall Pro, which could be exploited by malicious users to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to errors in the "Sandbox.sys" driver when handling a "NtAssignProcessToJobObject()", "NtCreateKey()", "NtCreateThread()", "NtDeleteFile()", "NtLoadDriver()", "NtOpenProcess()", "NtProtectVirtualMemory()", "NtReplaceKey()", "NtTerminateProcess()", "NtTerminateThread()", "NtUnloadDriver()", or "NtWriteVirtualMemory()" function with malformed arguments, which could be exploited by local attackers to crash a vulnerable system.
Affected Products
Outpost Firewall Pro version 4.0.971.7030 (584) and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4537
http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Outpost-Multiple-insufficient-argument-validation-of-hooked-SSDT-functions.php
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Matousec - Transparent security
ChangeLog
2006-11-16 : Initial release
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