full-disclosure - Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro.

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From: bkfsec at sdf.lonestar.org (Barry Fitzgerald)
Subject: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro.

Todd Towles wrote:

>Sounds like it about as easy to shutdown as Microsoft's SP2 firewall... 
>
>Overwrite a file, it fails integrity checks and the firewall will fail
>closed. There is something to add to a dropper program.
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This by itself would make an effective short-term DoS of a consumer PC.

          -Barry