Check Point Advisories

ACD Systems ACDSee Products XPM Values Section Buffer Overflow (CVE-2007-6009)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2007-354
Date Published:	29 Nov 2009
Severity:	Medium
Last Updated:	Sunday 29 November, 2009
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2007-6009
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	ACDSee is an image viewer software for Windows developed by ACD Systems. Besides the usual thumbnail viewing of folders and file type conversion, key features of ACDSee include slideshow presentations, CD/DVD burning, HTML gallery creation, image folder syncing and editing/indexing of image metadata. It is also possible to do minor image manipulation like cropping, scaling and rotating. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in multiple ACDSee products. The flaw is due to a boundary error when processing crafted XPM files. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by persuading the target user to open a malicious XPM file with the affected application. Successful attack could allow for arbitrary code being injected and executed with the privileges of the currently logged on user. In an attack where code injection is successful, the behaviour of the target host is entirely dependent on the intended function of the injected code. The code in such a case would execute within the security context of the currently logged in user. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the vulnerable application will terminate abnormally.

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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the ACD Systems ACDSee Products XPM Values Section Buffer Overflow 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: Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information: ACD Systems ACDSee products XPM values section buffer overflow