Check Point Advisories

Adobe Flash Player JPG Embedded SWF Processing Heap Overflow (CVE-2007-6242)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-367
Date Published: 5 Oct 2009
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 15 March, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-6242
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 Shockware 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 SWF files embedding JPG images. The vulnerability is due to lack of input validation while parsing the JPG header. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing the target user to open malicious SWF files, potentially causing arbitrary code to be injected and executed in the security context of the logged-in user. An attack targeting this vulnerability can result in the injection and execution of code. If code execution is successful, the behaviour 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 R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Adobe Flash Player JPG Embedded SWF Processing Heap 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 JPG embedded SWF processing heap overflow

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