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Symantec Client Firewall Remote Access and Denial of Service Issues

“eEye Digital Security notified Symantec Corporation of four vulnerability issues they discovered in the Symantec Client Firewall products for Windows. By properly exploiting these issues, an attacker could render the targeted system inoperable or execute remote code with kernel-level privileges on the targeted system. Affected Components - Consumer: Symantec Norton Internet Security and Professional 2002, 2003, 2004; Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2002, 2003, 2004; Symantec Norton AntiSpam 2004. Corporate: Symantec Client Firewall 5.01, 5.1.1; Symantec Client Security 1.0, 1.1, 2.0(SCF 7.1). Symantec confirmed the vulnerabilities exist in the consumer and corporate Symantec Client Firewall applications as well as in Symantec’s Norton AntiSpam 2004 application. Symantec product engineers have developed fixes for the issues and released patches for all impacted products through Symantec LiveUpdate and technical support channels.”

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