[NT] My Firewall Plus Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Date: 12/21/04

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      My Firewall Plus Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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    SUMMARY

     <http://www.webroot.com/products/myfirewallplus/> My Firewall Plus is a
    "Corporate strength firewall for your personal PC".

    Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in My Firewall Plus, which
    can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

    DETAILS

    Vulnerable Systems:
     * My Firewall Plus version 5.0 (build 1117)

    The vulnerability is caused due to the "Smc.exe" process invoking the help
    functionality with SYSTEM privileges.

    This can be exploited to execute arbitrary programs on a system with
    escalated privileges.

    Solution:
    Apply patch: <http://www.webroot.com/services/MFP_Patch.exe>
    http://www.webroot.com/services/MFP_Patch.exe

    Time Table:
    15/11/2004 - Vulnerability discovered.
    15/11/2004 - Vendor notified.
    15/11/2004 - Vendor response.
    16/12/2004 - Vendor issues patch.
    21/12/2004 - Public disclosure.

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

    The information has been provided by <mailto:che@secunia.com> Carsten H.
    Eiram.
    The original article can be found at:
    <http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2004-16/>
    http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2004-16/

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