Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Windows Media Player Plug-in Buffer Overflow (CVE-2006-0005)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2006-159
Date Published:	22 Mar 2010
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Sunday 13 January, 2013
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2006-0005
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Microsoft Windows Media Player is an application that is used to play various media files, such as those compressed with AVI, MP3, MPG formats and so on. Windows Media Player runs on Microsoft Windows platforms, including Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Windows Media Player provides a plug-in for use by external browsers and applications to display resources that are handled by Windows Media Player. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Windows Media Player Plug-in when it is used with various non-Microsoft browsers. The vulnerability exists due to a failure to check the boundaries of resource information provided to the plug-in. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the target host in the context of the user running the browser. In case of an attack where code injection is not successful, the affected application will terminate. 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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft Windows Media Player Plug-in Buffer Overflow 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: Application Intelligence.
Attack Information: Microsoft Windows Media Player Plug-in buffer overflow