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TITLE:
My Firewall Plus Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21142

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21142/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
My Firewall Plus 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/4276/

DESCRIPTION:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in My Firewall Plus,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application windows running
with SYSTEM privileges and the application not checking if
explorer.exe is running before performing certain actions. This can
be exploited to launch iexplore.exe with SYSTEM privileges by
terminating explorer.exe and then use the "Test Your Firewall"
functionality.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code with
SYSTEM privileges.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 5.0 Build 1119. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Enable the password protection to reduce the risk.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Secunia Research

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-59/

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