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By introducing a Trojan into a user computer, hackers could theoretically force an Internet connection bypassing the security of the freeware firewall, provided of course that the affected user, just idly clicked on the product's pop ups without reading them. Of course, for the attack to be successful in the first place, malware would have to be introduced. But this can often be as simple as sending an infected attachment.
Although the attack has yet to be deployed in the wild, it could potentially be used to easily bypass the supposed security of the freeware version of ZoneAlarm and leave millions of users data exposed to anyone who wants it.
ZoneLabs points out that the bug was only tested on version 3.1 of ZoneAlarm (it is now up to 3.7); but in principle even this is subject to the same vuln.
Source: The Register
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