Check Point Advisories

F-Secure Products Web Console Buffer Overflow (CVE-2006-2838)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2006-245
Date Published:	21 Feb 2010
Severity:	Medium
Last Updated:	Sunday 21 February, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2006-2838
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	F-Secure Corporation is an established developer of many anti-virus and security-related products. Two of the products provided by F-Secure can be deployed in enterprise environments and managed through a web interface. The web interface allows an administrator access to a console, through which he or she can configure the numerous anti-virus and other security agents running on the server. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Web Console of multiple F-Secure products. The vulnerability is caused by an insufficient validation of the user-supplied data to the HTTP server hosting the console. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition, or to inject and execute arbitrary code. In case of an attack aimed at creating a denial of service condition, the target application will terminate immediately. 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 F-Secure Web Console service process, normally System.

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 F-Secure Products Web Console 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: Security Products Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: F-Secure products Web Console buffer overflow