HTTP: Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2004 ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow
This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability in Norton Personal Firewall 2004. Attacker can create malicious Web pages containing dangerous ActiveX calls, which if accessed by a victim, can allow the attacker to gain control of the victim's client browser.
Extended Description
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall ActiveX Control is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to bounds-check user-supplied data before copying it into an insufficiently sized buffer. A successful attack would corrupt process memory, allowing arbitrary code to run in the context of the client application using the affected ActiveX control (typically Internet Explorer).
Affected Products
Symantec norton_internet_security_2004
Short Name
HTTP:STC:CLSID:ACTIVEX:SYM-FWAX
Severity
Minor
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
Drop
Category
HTTP
Keywords
2004 ActiveX Buffer CVE-2007-1689 Control Firewall Norton Overflow Personal Symantec bid:23936
Release Date
05/22/2007
Supported Platforms
srx-branch-12.3
srx-19.3
srx-branch-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.2
srx-branch-19.4
vsrx-19.4
mx-12.3
mx-19.4
vmx-19.4
mx-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.4
srx-19.4
vsrx-12.3
vmx-19.3
vsrx-19.2
srx-12.3
Sigpack Version
3336
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors
Symantec
CVSS Score
10.0