CVE-2007-5042 Information

Description

Outpost Firewall Pro 4.0.1025.7828 does not properly validate certain parameters to System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function handlers which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain privileges via the (1) NtCreateKey (2) NtDeleteFile (3) NtLoadDriver (4) NtOpenProcess (5) NtOpenSection (6) NtOpenThread and (7) NtUnloadDriver kernel SSDT hooks a partial regression of CVE-2006-7160.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/45899 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3161 http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-personal-firewall-analysis/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479830/100/0/threaded