CVE-2010-5173

Race condition in PC Tools Firewall Plus 6.0.0.88 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...

CVE-2010-5173

CVE-2010-5173 concerns a race condition in PC Tools Firewall Plus 6.0.0.88 on Windows XP that could allow local users to bypass kernel-mode hook handlers by manipulating user-space memory during hook-handler execution (KHOBE/argument-switch attack). Red Hat and other sources corroborate a local-a...