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Subject: [TowerTalk] if you use Zone Alarm read this....
From: Dan Bookwalter <n8dcj@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: N8DCJ@YAHOO.COM
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:54:41 -0700 (PDT)
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  --  Zone Labs Warns of Flaw in Multiple Products
 (30/29 September 2005)
 Zone Labs has issued a security advisory warning of a
vulnerability 
 in the ZoneAlarm firewall that could be exploited by
malicious code 
 to trick the firewall into allowing it to connect to
the Internet.  
 The flaw affects the free ZoneAlarm firewall, default
installations 
 of versions 5.5 and earlier of the paid firewall as
are default 
 installations of the Check Point Integrity Client;
paid ZoneAlarm 
 products 6.0, which were released in July, do not
have this 
 vulnerability.  Zone Labs does not plan to fix the
vulnerability in 
 its free product as it considers the flaw "low risk";
the paid 
 products are protected because of their additional
technology.

http://news.com.com/2102-1002_3-5886488.html?tag=st.util.printhttp://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/securityAlert/35.html
 [Editor's Note (Honan): I hope the reasons for not
patching the 
 free version of Zone Alarm is because the
vulnerability is a "low 
 risk" and not a ploy to force people to purchase the
professional 
 version of the software.  Many ordinary non-IT users
protect their 
 machines using the Zonealarm's free product and these
users are the 
 very ones often targeted for attacks. This "low risk"
vulnerability 
 could prove not to be the case.]



                
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