Check Point Advisories

Yahoo! Widgets YDP ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow (CVE-2007-4034)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-105
Date Published: 10 Sep 2007
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 10 September, 2007
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-4034
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in Yahoo! Widgets (YDPCTL.dll). Yahoo! Widgets is a free application platform for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.It offers a large set of desktop Widgets that perform a variety of functions. To trigger this issue, an attacker may create a malicious web page that will exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the vulnerable ActiveX Control.

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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Yahoo! Widgets YDP ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Yahoo! Widgets YDP ActiveX control buffer overflow

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