Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Word Section Table Array Buffer Overflow (MS07-14; CVE-2007-0515)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-230
Date Published: 22 Mar 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 26 November, 2017
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-0515
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75

Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Microsoft Word is a document authoring product released by the Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Word is available packaged with the Microsoft Office suite, as well as in form of a standalone product. Its native file format is the Word Document, normally identified by the .doc file extension. A Word Document has numerous properties which define the appearance of the document, as well as some more advanced properties for document objects, such as URLs, embedded images, and so on. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Word. The vulnerability is created due to a flaw in the Section Table entry inside the Table Stream structure. An attacker may exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to open a crafted Word file. Exploitation of the vulnerability may result in injection and execution of arbitrary code within the security context of the target user. In an attack scenario, where arbitrary code is attempted to be injected and executed on the target machine, the behaviour of the target is dependent on the intention of the malicious code. If such an attack is not executed successfully, the vulnerable application may terminate as a result of the attack attempt.

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 Word Section Table Array Buffer Overflow (MS07-14) 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 Word Section Table Array Buffer Overflow (MS07-14)

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