Symantec Client Firewall Products SYMNDIS.SYS Driver Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Symantec Client Firewall Products SYMNDIS.SYS Driver Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Symantec Client Firewall has been reported to be prone to a remote denial of service vulnerability. The issue is reported to present itself in the TCP packet processing routines of the affected software.

It is reported that this vulnerability will have a system wide impact, causing Windows GUI and peripherals that are attached to the host to become unresponsive. A hard reset is reported to be required to restore normal functionality to the system.

The information in this BID was consolidated from BID 10204 as both of these BIDs represented the same issue. BID 10204 is being retired.