Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Windows Vista Windows Mail File Execution (MS07-034; CVE-2007-1658)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-249
Date Published: 6 Apr 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Tuesday 30 July, 2013
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-1658
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Microsoft Windows Mail product is an implementation of an email and newsgroup client capable of handling most standard Internet protocols as well as numerous proprietary Microsoft protocols and formats. It is the successor to Outlook Express and is included in recent versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows Vista. Microsoft Mail provides new features such as phishing filter and enhanced real-time search. There exists a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Mail product. The vulnerability is due to an insufficient validation of URLs in incoming emails. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target user to open an email message and click on a specially crafted URL within the message which refers to an executable file on the client system. The behavior of the target host is entirely dependent on the intended function of the executed file. The file 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 Windows Vista Windows Mail File Execution (MS07-034) 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:  NNTP Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft Windows Vista Windows Mail file execution (MS07-034)

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