CVE-2006-3725 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can crash Norton Personal Firewall by manipulating specific registry keys, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2006-3725?
CVE-2006-3725 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 19 Jul 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Norton Personal Firewall 2006 9.1.0.33 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain RegSaveKey, RegRestoreKey and RegDeleteKey operations on the (1) HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SNDSrvc and (2) HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SymEvent registry keys.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-3725?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Symantec Norton Personal Firewall.
How do I fix CVE-2006-3725?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-3725 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2006-3725 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-3725 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-q644-mf3g-r898.