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CVE-2010-5158 (GCVE-0-2010-5158)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-25 21:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:26 Disputed
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Summary
Race condition in DefenseWall Personal Firewall 3.00 on Windows XP allows local users to bypass kernel-mode hook handlers, and execute dangerous code that would otherwise be blocked by a handler but not blocked by signature-based malware detection, via certain user-space memory changes during hook-handler execution, aka an argument-switch attack or a KHOBE attack. NOTE: this issue is disputed by some third parties because it is a flaw in a protection mechanism for situations where a crafted program has already begun to execute
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