Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Word Formatted Disk Pages Table Memory Corruption (MS07-014; CVE-2006-6561)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2006-289
Date Published: 10 Nov 2009
Severity: High
Last Updated: Tuesday 02 August, 2011
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2006-6561
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Microsoft Word is a document authoring product released by the Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Word is shipped with the Microsoft Office suite and also available as a standalone product. The default file extension of Word documents is .doc. There exists a memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Word. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of Formatted Disk Pages Table count values in the file header. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing the target user to open a crafted Word document, potentially causing arbitrary code to be injected and executed in the security context of the current user. If an attack attempt is unsuccessful in injecting and executing arbitrary code, Microsoft Word or Word Viewer may terminate abnormally. If a code execution attempt is carried out successfully, the behaviour of the target host is dependent on the intention of the injected code. The injected code is executed within the security context of current user.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability

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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft Word Formatted Disk Pages Table Memory Corruption (MS07-014) 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:  Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft Word Formatted Disk Pages Table memory corruption (MS07-014)

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