CVE-2008-1736 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can crash the system by sending crafted parameters to hooked SSDT functions in Comodo Firewall Pro.
- 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-2008-1736?
CVE-2008-1736 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Apr 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Comodo Firewall Pro before 3.0 does not properly validate certain parameters to hooked System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) functions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via (1) a crafted OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES structure in a call to the NtDeleteFile function, which leads to improper validation of a ZwQueryObject result; and unspecified calls to the (2) NtCreateFile and (3) NtSetThreadContext functions, different vectors than CVE-2007-0709.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1736?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Comodo Comodo Personal Firewall.
How do I fix CVE-2008-1736?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-1736 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-2008-1736 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1736 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xwmv-w8ff-6vr2.