full-disclosure - Re: Bypassing Personal Firewall (Zone Alarm Pro) Using DDE-IPC

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Date: Thu Sep 29 22:41:34 2005
From: zx at castlecops.com (Paul Laudanski)
Subject: Re: Bypassing Personal Firewall (Zone Alarm Pro)
	Using DDE-IPC

On 29 Sep 2005 warl0ck@...uxmail.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