CVE-2006-7160 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can crash the system by passing invalid arguments to specific kernel functions hooked by the Outpost Firewall Sandbox driver.
- 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-2006-7160?
CVE-2006-7160 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 Mar 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Sandbox.sys driver in Outpost Firewall PRO 4.0, and possibly earlier versions, does not validate arguments to hooked SSDT functions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via invalid arguments to the (1) NtAssignProcessToJobObject,, (2) NtCreateKey, (3) NtCreateThread, (4) NtDeleteFile, (5) NtLoadDriver, (6) NtOpenProcess, (7) NtProtectVirtualMemory, (8) NtReplaceKey, (9) NtTerminateProcess, (10) NtTerminateThread, (11) NtUnloadDriver, and (12) NtWriteVirtualMemory functions.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-7160?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Agnitum Outpost Firewall.
How do I fix CVE-2006-7160?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-7160 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-2006-7160 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-7160 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-78pc-3w8m-h368.