Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Indexing Service ActiveX Memory Corruption (MS09-057; CVE-2009-2507)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2009-199
Date Published:	13 Oct 2009
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Tuesday 13 October, 2009
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2009-2507
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	The Microsoft Windows Indexing Service is a base service that extracts content from files and constructs an indexed catalog to facilitate efficient and rapid searching. A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in the Microsoft Indexing Service. The vulnerability is caused by an ActiveX component that is included with the Indexing service that does not properly handle specially crafted Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). A remote attacker could exploit this issue by convincing a user to visit a malicious Web page. Successful exploitation of this issue could allow remote code execution on the affected system.

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 / R71 / R70 / R65

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft Indexing Service ActiveX Memory Corruption (MS09-057) 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: Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Microsoft Indexing Service ActiveX memory corruption (MS09-057)