TITLE: Symantec Norton Personal Firewall Denial of Service SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA21938
VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/21938/ CRITICAL: Not critical IMPACT: DoS WHERE: Local system SOFTWARE: Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2005 http://secunia.com/product/6637/ Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006 http://secunia.com/product/6638/ DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall, which can be exploited by malicious, **LOCAL** users to cause a Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of data sent to the "\Device\SymEvent" device which is writable by "Everyone". This can be exploited to crash a vulnerable system by sending malformed data. The vulnerability has been confirmed in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2005 versions 8.0.5.14 and 8.0.7.1, and has also been reported in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006 version 9.1.0.33. Other versions may also be affected. SOLUTION: Grant only trusted users access to affected systems. ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Norton-Insufficient-validation-of-SymEvent-driver-input-buffer.php ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
