Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Windows Kernel IGMPv3 Request Processing Code Execution (MS08-001; CVE-2007-0069)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2008-005
Date Published:	9 Jan 2008
Severity:	Critical
Last Updated:	Monday 09 April, 2018
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2007-0069
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is a communications protocol used to manage the membership of Internet Protocol multicast groups. IGMP is used by IP hosts and adjacent multicast routers to establish multicast group memberships. Overly long IGMP queries transmitted over a short period of time may be used to exploit vulnerabilitiesthat are due to insufficient validation by the TCP/IP stack when storing the state of IGMP requests. Successful exploitation of such vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block IGMP v3 membership queries that contain a large number of source addresses and are being transmitted over a short period of time.

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 Microsoft Windows Kernel IGMPv3 Request Processing Code Execution (MS08-001) 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: IGMP Protocol Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Microsoft Windows Kernel IGMPv3 request processing code execution (MS08-001)