CVE-2006-5153
The (1) fwdrv.sys and (2) khips.sys drivers in Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall 4.3.268 and earlier do not validate arguments passed through to SSDT functions, including NtCreateFile, NtDeleteFile, NtLoadDriver, NtMapViewOfSection, NtOpenFile, and NtSetInformationFile, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly other impacts via unspecified vectors.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 1.6% (76th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5138)
- Published
- October 5, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5138 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
- kerio / personal firewall
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22234(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1685
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016967
- http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Kerio-Multiple-insufficient-argument-validation-of-hooked-SSDT-functions.php(Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447504/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20299(Exploit)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3872
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29313
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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