Check Point Advisories

Microsoft VB Common Controls Animation Object Buffer Overflow (MS08-070; CVE-2008-4255)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2009-283
Date Published:	13 Dec 2009
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Sunday 13 December, 2009
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2008-4255
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	The Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 integrated development environment (IDE) suite is designed for building Windows based applications and Web solutions. The product contains several tools which can be used to design programs in languages such as Visual C++, or Visual Basic. Microsoft Basic 6.0 is shipped with a set of various ActiveX controls that are registered on the host upon installation. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in multiple Microsoft products. The vulnerability is due to a boundary error in an animation object ActiveX control while opening a specially crafted audio/video file (AVI file). Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability by enticing the target user to visit a malicious web page, potentially causing arbitrary code to be injected and executed in the security context of the currently logged on user. In an attack scenario, where arbitrary code is injected and executed on the target machine, the behaviour of the target is dependent on the intention of the malicious code. If such an attack is not executed successfully, the vulnerable application (IE) may terminate as a result of invalid memory access.

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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft VB Common Controls Animation Object Buffer Overflow (MS08-070) 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: Microsoft VB common controls Animation Object buffer overflow (MS08-070)