Outpost Insufficient validation of 'SandBox' driver input buffer
SecurityAlert : 1821 CVE : CVE-2006-5721 SecurityRisk : Low (About) Remote Exploit : No Local Exploit : Yes Exploit Available : Yes Credit : Matousec - Transparent security Research (research matousec com) Published : 07.11.2006
Affected Software :
Outpost Firewall PRO 4.0
Advisory Content :
Hello,
We would like to inform you about a vulnerability in Outpost Firewall PRO
4.0.
Description:
Outpost insufficiently protects its driver DeviceSandBox against a
manipulation by malicious applications and it fails
to validate its input buffer. It is possible to open this driver and send
arbitrary data to it, which are implicitly
believed to be valid. It is possible to assemble the data in the input
buffer such that the driver performs an invalid
memory operation and crashes the whole operating system. Further impacts of
this bug were not examined.
Vulnerable software:
* Outpost Firewall PRO 4.0 (964.582.059)
More details and a proof of concept including source code is available
here:
http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Outpost-Insufficient-validation-
of-SandBox-driver-input-buffer.php
Regards,
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Matousec - Transparent security Research
http://www.matousec.com/
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