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List:       bugtraq
Subject:    Re: Bypassing Personal Firewall (Zone Alarm Pro) Using DDE-IPC
From:       Paul Laudanski <zx () castlecops ! com>
Date:       2005-09-29 21:41:13
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0509291739390.20199-100000 () bugsbunny ! castlecops ! com
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On 29 Sep 2005 warl0ck@linuxmail.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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