Description
BlackICE PC Protection and Server Protection installs (1) firewall.ini, (2) blackice.ini, (3) sigs.ini and (4) protect.ini with Everyone Full Control permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) or modify configuration, as demonstrated by modifying firewall.ini to contain a large firewall rule.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Internet Security Systems BlackICE PC Protection 3.6 - Firewall.INI Local Buffer Overrun EDB-24362 · dos · Aug 11, 2004 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20040811 ISS BlackIce Server Protect Unprivileged User Attack mailing-list
- 10915 vdb-entry
- 20040811 BlackICE unprivileged local user attack mailing-list
- blackice-firewall-dos(16959) vdb-entry