Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) Application Launch Protection denial of service
| kerio-pf-protection-dos (17270) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) is a firewall application for Microsoft Windows platforms. Kerio Personal Firewall version 4.0.16 running on Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. A local attacker, with administrative privileges, could restore the kernel's SDT ServiceTable and disable the Application Launch Protection feature.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.
References:
- Kerio Technologies Inc. Web site: Kerio Personal Firewall.
- SIG^2 Vulnerability Research Advisory : Kerio Personal Firewall's Application Launch Protection Can Be Disabled by Direct Service Table Restoration.
- BID-11096: Kerio Personal Firewall Application Security Bypass Vulnerability
- CVE-2004-1658: Kerio Personal Firewall 4.0 (KPF4) allows local users with administrative privileges to bypass the Application Security feature and execute arbitrary processes by directly writing to \device\physicalmemory to restore the running kernel's SDT ServiceTable.
- SA12468: Kerio Personal Firewall Program Execution Protection Feature Bypass
Platforms Affected:
- Kerio Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) 4.0.16
Reported:
Sep 02, 2004
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