Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Outlook Express Windows Address Book File Overflow (MS06-016; CVE-2006-0014)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2006-220
Date Published: 2 Aug 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 14 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2006-0014
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Microsoft Outlook Express (OE) is an email, newsgroup and address book management client application. The application includes a stand-alone component called Address Book that manages the address book entries. An Address Book can contain entries for individual contacts as well as group lists that bundle individual contacts together. A vulnerability has been discovered in the way Microsoft Outlook Express parses malformed Windows Address Book (.wab) files. An attacker may exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to open a crafted address book file. A successful attack can lead to the injection and execution of arbitrary code within the security context of the target user. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the vulnerable wab.exe application will terminate immediately. In a more sophisticated attack that results in successful code injection, the behavior of the target system 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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft Outlook Express Windows Address Book File Overflow (MS06-016) 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:  Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft Outlook Express Windows Address Book file overflow (MS06-016)

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