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"Outpost Firewall PRO is the personal firewall you need to protect your computer from any unauthorized intrusion including but not limited to Internet worms, spyware agents, Trojan horses, hijackers and many more."
Outpost has a vulnerability which can lead to a system crash, with a possibility of arbitrary code execution in kernel mode. |
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Credit:
The original article can be found at:
http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Outpost-Multiple-insufficient-argument-validation-of-hooked-SSDT-functions.php
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Hooking SSDT functions requires extra caution. SSDT function handlers are executed in the kernel mode but their callers are executed in the user mode. Hence all function arguments come from the user mode. This is why it is necessary to validate these arguments properly. Otherwise a simple user call can easily crash the whole system. This bug usually results in a system crash. However, it may happen that this bug is even more dangerous and can lead to the execution of an arbitrary code in the privileged kernel mode.
Outpost Firewall PRO hooks many functions in SSDT and in at least twelve cases it fails to validate arguments that come from user mode. User calls to NtAssignProcessToJobObject, NtCreateKey, NtCreateThread, NtDeleteFile, NtLoadDriver, NtOpenProcess, NtProtectVirtualMemory, NtReplaceKey, NtTerminateProcess, NtTerminateThread, NtUnloadDriver, NtWriteVirtualMemory with invalid argument values can cause system crashes because of errors in Outpost driver Sandbox.sys. Only in case of NtWriteVirtualMemory the user is able to prevent the system crash because Outpost alerts the user about a potentially dangerous action that can be blocked. However, even in this case the implementation of the Outpost driver is improper and should be fixed. Further impacts of this bug (like arbitrary code execution in the kernel mode) were not examined.
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