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Kerio Personal Firewall Engine Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA21060
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Release Date:
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2006-07-17
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Last Update:
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2006-07-28
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Popularity:
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7,089 views
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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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Unpatched
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| Software: | Kerio Personal Firewall 4.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-3787
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Description:
David Matousek has discovered a vulnerability in Kerio Personal Firewall, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a logic error in the kpf4ss.exe service in the "CreateRemoteThread()" API hook. This can be exploited to cause a runtime error via a "CreateRemoteThread()" API call.
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 4.3.246. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.
Provided and/or discovered by:
David Matousek, Matousec.
Changelog:
2006-07-28: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.matousec.com/info/advisori...-exe-using-internal-runtime-error.php
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