Check Point Advisories

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator SiteManager ActiveX Multiple Buffer Overflows (CVE-2007-1498)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2007-062
Date Published:	1 May 2007
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Tuesday 01 May, 2007
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2007-1498
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), and the Protection Pilot products. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is a central management system to enforce and monitor system security. A remote attacker could exploit this issue by convincing a user to visit a specially crafted HTML documents or open a malicious web page.The vulnerabilities are due to multiple boundary errors in the 'SiteManager.dll' ActiveX Control component. To trigger this flaw, an attacker can specially craft a malicious Web page that initiates the vulnerable ActiveX control with a malformed argument. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the malformed ActiveX Controls.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75 / R71 / R70 / R65

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator SiteManager ActiveX Multiple Buffer Overflows protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator SiteManager activeX buffer overflow