Check Point Advisories

Adobe Flash Player FLV Processing Buffer Overflow (CVE-2007-3456)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-293
Date Published: 14 Dec 2009
Severity: High
Last Updated: Wednesday 15 January, 2025
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-3456
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Adobe Flash Player is a multimedia and application player. Flash Player runs the Sockware Flash (SWF) files, which contains multimedia content including vector and raster graphics, video, audio, and scripts. Flash Player is made available as a plug-in for a wide range of web browser applications. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in the way Adobe Flash Player processes FLV video files. The vulnerability is due to lack of input validation while parsing script data tags in FLV files. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing the target user to open malicious FLV files, potentially causing arbitrary code to be injected and executed in the security context of the current user. An attack targeting this vulnerability can result in the injection and execution of code. If code execution is successful, the behavior of the target will depend on the intention of the attacker. Any code injected will be executed within the security context of the currently logged in user. In the case of an unsuccessful code execution attack, the affected application will terminate from the current session.

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 R81 / R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Adobe Flash Player FLV Processing 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:  Adobe Flash Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Adobe Flash Player FLV processing buffer overflow

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