Check Point Advisories

Macromedia Flash Player Improper Memory Access (CVE-2005-2628)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2005-325
Date Published: 11 Aug 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 16 March, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2005-2628
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description The Macromedia Flash Player can process and render multimedia content authored in the Shockwave Flash (SWF) format. Macromedia Flash Player includes a browser plug-ins that allows Flash content to be displayed within web pages. There are several versions of the plugin provided by Macromedia for most popular web browsers. The plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer is implemented as an ActiveX control with the file name flash.ocx. A vulnerability exists in the way that Macromedia Flash Player processes SWF files. The vulnerable product does not properly validate the user supplied data. A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the target by enticing the targeted user to open a crafted SWF file. In case of an attack where code injection and execution is successful, the behavior of the target is dependent on the intended purpose of the injected code. Any code injected would run within the security context of the logged in user. In case of an attack where code injection is not successful, the vulnerable application may terminate as a result of the attack attempt.

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 Macromedia Flash Player Improper Memory Access 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:  Macromedia Flash Player improper memory access

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