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[Full-disclosure] Re: Bypassing Personal Firewall (Zone Alarm Pro) Using DDE-IPC

From: Paul Laudanski (zxcastlecops.com)
Date: Thu Sep 29 2005 - 16:41:13 CDT

On 29 Sep 2005 warl0cklinuxmail.org wrote:

> It is issue with almost all the firewalls
> firewalls don't protect the running applications
> themselves.I think i don't get is what does it
> have to do with DDE ?.Also one can read firewall
> ACL from the settings and inject code into the
> running trusted process.

This "exploit" was tested by members at CastleCops and found to be untrue:

http://castlecops.com/postlite134369-.html

Snapshots also provided.

--
Paul Laudanski, Microsoft MVP Windows-Security
CastleCops(SM), http://castlecops.com

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