Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Windows Kodak Image Viewer Code Execution (MS07-055; CVE-2007-2217)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-327
Date Published: 4 Jan 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 14 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-2217
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Kodak Image Viewer is the picture viewer shipped with Microsoft Windows. It is capable of handling several types of popular graphic document format such as BMP, JPEG, PCX, GIF, TIFF. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Kodak Image Viewer. The vulnerability is due to an improper parsing of specially crafted image files, such as TIFF files. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted image and enticing a victim to open the malicious image with an affected version of product. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged-in user. In case of an attack where code injection and execution is successful, the behavior of the target will depend on the intention of the attacker. Any injected code will be executed within the security context of the currently logged in user. In case of an attack where code execution is unsuccessful, the vulnerable application will terminate unexpectedly. The vulnerable applications include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, and the Windows picture and fax viewer are affected as well. Note that the vulnerability may be triggered in the Windows Explorer by either attempting to get the file properties, or preview of the file in form of thumbnails or web view folders.

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 Kodak Image Viewer Code Execution (MS07-055) 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 Windows Kodak Image Viewer code execution (MS07-055)

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