CVE-2007-4968

MEDIUM 4.4CVE-2007-4968 · Published 19/09/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-4968 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.4) vulnerability affecting privatefirewall (privacyware).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.28%, higher than 21.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
privatefirewall privacyware	`= 5.0.14.2`	No fix yet

Description

Privatefirewall 5.0.14.2 does not properly validate certain parameters to System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function handlers, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain privileges via kernel SSDT hooks for (1) NtOpenProcess and (2) NtOpenThread.

References

osvdb.org/45952
matousec.com/info/advisories/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php
matousec.com/projects/windows-personal-firewall-analysis/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php
securityfocus.com/archive/1/479830/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/25712

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