Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Help Workshop HPJ OPTIONS Section Buffer Overflow (CVE-2007-0427)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-225
Date Published: 21 Jun 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 21 June, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-0427
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description The Microsoft Help Workshop product is a development tool that allows the design and development of help files frequently packaged with Windows based applications. The program is used to author help content and package it in Microsoft Help files such as HLP. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Microsoft Help Workshop product. The flaw is created by an insufficient boundary checks of strings supplied in HPJ files. A malicious user may construct an HPJ file that will result in the diversion of the process flow of the vulnerable application. In case of an attack where code injection is not successful, the affected application that is parsing the malicious HPJ file may terminate abnormally. In case of an attack where code injection and execution is successful, the behavior 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 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 Microsoft Help Workshop HPJ OPTIONS Section 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:  Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft Help Workshop HPJ OPTIONS section buffer overflow

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