Check Point Advisories

ACD Systems ACDSee Products XPM File Handling Buffer Overflow (CVE-2007-2193)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2007-259
Date Published:	1 Feb 2010
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Sunday 14 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2007-2193
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	ACDSee is an image viewer software for Windows developed by ACD Systems. Besides the usual thumbnail viewing of folders and file type conversion, key features of ACDSee include slideshow presentations, CD/DVD burning, HTML gallery creation, image folder syncing and editing/indexing of image metadata. It is also possible to do minor image manipulation like cropping, scaling and rotating. There exists a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the ACD Systems, ACDSee products. The vulnerability is due to improper boundary validation when processing XPM images. The flaw can be leveraged remotely to execute arbitrary code under the context of the currently logged in user. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the vulnerable ACDSee application processing the malicious XPM file will terminate abnormally. In a more sophisticated attack, where code injection 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 current 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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the ACD Systems ACDSee Products XPM File Handling 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: Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information: ACD Systems ACDSee products XPM file handling buffer overflow