Check Point Advisories

Opera Browser file URI Handling Buffer Overflow (CVE-2008-5178)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2008-376
Date Published: 28 Dec 2009
Severity: Medium
Last Updated: Monday 28 December, 2009
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2008-5178
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by the Opera Software company. Opera handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, IRC online chatting, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading web feeds. The application is capable of interpreting and rendering many types of Internet content. Opera is made available for Windows, Macintosh, Unix and Linux based platforms. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in Opera Software's Opera Web browser. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing the target user to open a malicious HTML document. Successful attack may allow for arbitrary code injection and execution with privileges of the currently logged on user. In case of an attack, where code injection and execution is successful, the behavior of the target system is dependent on the malicious code. Note that any code executed by the attacker runs with the privileges of the logged in user. In case of an attack where code execution fails, the vulnerable application will terminate abnormally while parsing the malicious document.

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 Opera Browser file URI Handling 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:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Opera browser file URI handling buffer overflow

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