Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 9.1.0.33 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 9.1.0.33. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability was named CVE-2006-3725. In addition, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 9.1.0.33 (Firewall Software). Affected is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The bug was discovered 08/18/2006. The weakness was presented 07/21/2006 by David Matousek as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2006-3725 since 07/19/2006. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 34048 (Symantec Norton Personal Firewall Registry Access Denial of Service Vulnerability).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (27764), SecurityFocus (BID 18995†), OSVDB (28593†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-12325†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: symantec.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: David Matousek
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2006-3725 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-3725
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-31428
X-Force: 27764
SecurityFocus: 18995 - Microsoft Windows Registry Access Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: 28593 - Symantec Norton Personal Firewall SuiteOwners security bypass
Vulnerability Center: 12325 - Norton Personal Firewall Local Denial of Service via API Calls to Registry Keys, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 14:25
Updated: 06/19/2025 23:00
Changes: 03/12/2015 14:25 (61), 06/22/2019 16:58 (4), 06/19/2025 23:00 (22)
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