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Outpost Firewall Pro FILTNT.SYS Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA21095
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Release Date:
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2006-07-18
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Last Update:
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2006-07-20
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Outpost Firewall Pro 3.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2006-3696 (Secunia mirror)
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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.
Do you have this product installed on your home computer? Scan using the free Personal Software Inspector. Check if a vulnerable version is installed on computers in your corporate network, scan using the Network Software Inspector.
Solution:
Update to version 3.51.759.6511 (462) or later.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Bipin Gautam
Changelog:
2006-07-20: Added CVE reference.
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1 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. Outpost Firewall Pro Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
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