Zone Labs to Patch Free Firewall
Zone Labs to Patch Free Firewall..
A spokeswoman for firewall manufacturer Zone Labs said the company has reconsidered a previous decision and will upgrade its free ZoneAlarm firewall software to address a vulnerability found this week.A patch to the free version of ZoneAlarm will be issued within two weeks, the company said. Earlier this week, company executives characterized the difficulty of exploiting the hole as "the equivalent of hacker brain surgery" and said the cost to upgrade a free product would be prohibitive.
ZoneAlarm has done this without creating greater complexity for their users or support staff.
Originally, Zone Labs said it would decline to fix the vulnerability reported to the BugTraq mailing list, as the company claimed the hole was a flaw in Windows, and not in its own software.
Since, Zone Labs changed its stance, claiming that any exploit that took advantage of the hole was still "theoretical", and that that to its knowledge no hacker had used the vulnerability to compromise a user's system.
Zone Labs did make a fix for its free ZoneAlarm product available and it was also published to the BugTraq list.
"Users of ZoneAlarm should keep in mind the following facts", Zone Labs added. "This vulnerability has not been exploited to our knowledge. This vulnerability requires that a malicious application is running on the affected PC. For this to occur, an attacker would have to break through the other protection layers of ZoneAlarm (firewall, stealth mode etc.) as a first step."
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