CVE-2006-5153 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can crash the system by sending invalid arguments to unvalidated kernel drivers in Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall.
- 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-2006-5153?
CVE-2006-5153 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Oct 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The (1) fwdrv.sys and (2) khips.sys drivers in Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall 4.3.268 and earlier do not validate arguments passed through to SSDT functions, including NtCreateFile, NtDeleteFile, NtLoadDriver, NtMapViewOfSection, NtOpenFile, and NtSetInformationFile, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly other impacts via unspecified vectors.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-5153?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Kerio Personal Firewall.
How do I fix CVE-2006-5153?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-5153 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-2006-5153 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-5153 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-m5gv-wj6x-54cq.