Check Point Advisories

Free Download Manager Remote Control Server Header Buffer Overflow (CVE-2009-0183)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2009-370
Date Published: 16 Dec 2009
Severity: Medium
Last Updated: Wednesday 13 November, 2024
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2009-0183
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Free Download Manager is an open source free download accelerator and manager software distributed under GPL license. It includes various features and components, such as upload manager, Flash video download, Remote Control Server, BitTorrent support, smart file management, a powerful scheduler and many other features. There exists a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the Remote Control Server component of Free Download Manager. The vulnerability is due to a boundary error while processing specially crafted HTTP requests containing a malformed header. Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the target server. In an attack case where code injection is successful, the behavior of the target is entirely dependent on the intended function of the injected code. The code in such a case would execute with the security privileges of the server. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the affected process 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 R81 / R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Free Download Manager Remote Control Server Header 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:  Application Servers Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Free Download Manager Remote Control Server Header Buffer Overflow

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