Zemana Antilogger 1.9.2 DoS attack

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Severity: Critical
Title: Zemana Antilogger: Denial of Service
Date: May 30, 2009
Vers:1.9.2.102
ID: 200905-30
StreAmeR - 2009

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Synopsis
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A vulnerability has been discovered in Zemana Antilogger, allowing for a Denial
of Service.

Background
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Zemana AntiLogger has a new, powerful way to protect your PC from malware attacks.

Affected packages
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Vers:1.9.2.102 and old versions.

Description
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Attempts to terminate the process by sending Close messages (called WM_CLOSE and SC_CLOSE) to all windows in the target 
process. This method only works if 1) the target process has at least one window, and 2) the target process doesn't 
handle the WM_CLOSE/SC_CLOSE message .


Impact
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Attacker could send specially crafted messages to the windows of the target process,
resulting in a crash.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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No current solution.