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>> Symantec Norton Personal Firewall ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : Symantec Norton Personal Firewall ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1843
CVE ID : CVE-2007-1689
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-05-16
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A vulnerability has been identified in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "ISAlertDataCOM" (ISLALERT.DLL) ActiveX control when processing malformed arguments passed to the "Get()" and "Set()" functions, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.
Affected Products
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2004
Solution
Fixes are available through LiveUpdate.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1843
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.05.16.html
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Will Dormann (CERT/CC).
ChangeLog
2007-05-16 : Initial release
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