Secunia Security Advisory - Bipin Gautam has reported a vulnerability in Outpost Firewall Pro, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Outpost Firewall Pro FILTNT.SYS Denial of Service
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21095
VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
Outpost Firewall Pro 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/7908/
DESCRIPTION:
Bipin Gautam has reported a vulnerability in Outpost Firewall Pro,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the
Virtual Firewall driver (filtnt.sys) and can be exploited to crash
the system by e.g. passing an overly long string as command line
argument to mshta.exe.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 3.5.631. Other
versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.51.759.6511 (462) or later.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Bipin Gautam
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