Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Office Malformed Routing Slip Code Execution (CVE-2006-0009)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2006-206
Date Published:	28 Sep 2010
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Tuesday 28 September, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2006-0009
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Microsoft Office is a popular productivity suit released by the Microsoft Corporation. It includes a text processor, a spreadsheet application, a presentation editor, and a number of other components. Office document files contain a common section that stores metadata such as the author, application name, date of creation and other optional information. A vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office components when processing documents which include malformed Routing Slip records. This vulnerability may be exploited by supplying a malicious document to a vulnerable target host and enticing a user to open the file. An attacker may exploit this vulnerability to inject and execute arbitrary code into the vulnerable application process. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, all instances of the vulnerable Microsoft Office application will terminate. This can potentially lead to a loss of data. In a more sophisticated attack where code injection is successful, the behaviour of the target is entirely dependent on the intended function of the injected code. The code in such a case would execute within the security context of the current 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 Office Malformed Routing Slip Code Execution 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 Office Malformed Routing Slip Code Execution