Secunia Security Advisory - Matousec has discovered a vulnerability in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall Hooked Functions Denial of Service
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24677
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24677/
CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006
http://secunia.com/product/6638/
DESCRIPTION:
Matousec has discovered a vulnerability in Symantec Norton Personal
Firewall 2006, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in
SPBBCDrv.sys when handling parameters of certain hooked functions.
This can be exploited to crash the system by calling NtCreateMutant
or NtOpenEvent with specially crafted parameters.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 9.0.0.73 and also reported
in versions 9.1.1.7 and 9.1.0.33. Other versions may also be
affected.
SOLUTION:
Restrict access to trusted users only.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Matousec Transparent Security
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Matousec Transparent Security:
http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Norton-Multiple-insufficient-argument-validation-of-hooked-SSDT-functions.php
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