Outpost Firewall Pro Device\Sandbox denial of service
| outpostfirewall-sandbox-dos (29969) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Outpost Firewall Pro is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper validation of user-supplied data by the SandBox device driver. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed data to the SandBox driver to cause the system to crash.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 3.5 |
| Access Vector: | Local |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | Not Required |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Complete |
| Temporal Score: | 2.7 |
| Exploitability: | Proof-Of-Concept |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Outpost Firewall (4.0 (1005.590.123) or later), available from the Outpost Firewall Pro Web page. See References.
References:
- Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Wed Nov 01 2006 - 12:56:05 CST: Outpost Insufficient validation of 'SandBox' driver input buffer.
- Matousec Advisory 2006-11-01.01: Outpost Insufficient validation of 'SandBox' driver input buffer.
- Outpost Firewall Pro Web page: Outpost Firewall PRO - Personal Firewall.
- BID-20860: Outpost Firewall PRO Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2006-5721: The \Device\SandBox driver in Outpost Firewall PRO 4.0 (964.582.059) allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an invalid argument to the DeviceIoControl function that triggers an invalid memory operation.
- SA22673: Outpost Firewall "Sandbox" Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability
- SECTRACK ID: 1017150: Outpost Firewall PRO /Device/Sandbox Insufficent Access Control and Insufficent Input Validation Lets Local Users Deny Service
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-4309: Outpost Firewall Sandbox Device Driver Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro 4.0.964.6926 and prior
Reported:
Nov 01, 2006
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