Check Point Advisories

IBM Lotus Notes Attachment Viewer UUE File Handling Buffer Overflow (CVE-2005-2618)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2006-157
Date Published: 25 Feb 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 14 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2005-2618
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Lotus Notes is a client-server collaborative software and email system provided by IBM. The Lotus Notes email client application is capable of communicating with email servers over the SMTP, POP and IMAP protocols. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in IBM Lotus Notes Attachment Viewer. The vulnerability is caused due to a failure in proper buffer boundary checking when handling UUE archive files. An attacker may exploit this issue to inject and execute arbitrary code on the target host system with the privileges of the user running the affected application. In case of an attack where code injection is not successful, the affected Lotus Notes application will terminate, creating a denial of service condition. The application can not be restarted until the target system is reset or certain process is manually terminated. In case of an attack where code injection and execution is successful, the behavior of the system is dependent on the intended purpose of the injected code. Any code injected into the vulnerable component would execute in the security context of the currently logged in user.

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 IBM Lotus Notes Attachment Viewer UUE File 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:  NNTP Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  IBM Lotus Notes Attachment Viewer UUE file handling buffer overflow

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