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TITLE:
Outpost Firewall Pro Hooked Functions Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22913

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22913/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Outpost Firewall Pro 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/12472/

DESCRIPTION:
Matousec has discovered a vulnerability in Outpost Firewall Pro,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within Sandbox.sys when
handling the parameters of certain hooked functions.  This can be
exploited to cause a DoS by calling NtAssignProcessToJobObject,
NtCreateKey, NtCreateThread, NtDeleteFile, NtLoadDriver,
NtOpenProcess, NtProtectVirtualMemory, NtReplaceKey,
NtTerminateProcess, NtTerminateThread, NtUnloadDriver, and
NtWriteVirtualMemory with specially crafted parameters.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 4.0.971.7030 (584). Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Restrict access to trusted users only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Matousec Transparent Security

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Matousec Transparent Security:
http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Outpost-Multiple-insufficient-argument-validation-of-hooked-SSDT-functions.php

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