Security researchers say hackers have published code that could let an attacker disable the built-in firewall on computers running Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system.
The code, which has been available on the Internet since Sunday, could be used to disable the firewall on completely up-to-date Windows XP computers running Microsoft’s Internet Connection Service (ICS), allowing malicious code to be planted on those machines.
The exploit details ways to send specially formed malicious data packets to force ICS to fail. Because ICS is connected to the Windows XP firewall, the packets could also cause the firewall to fail.
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