Check Point Advisories

IBM Lotus Notes MIF Attachment Viewer Buffer Overflow

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-340
Date Published: 8 Jul 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 29 March, 2015
Source:
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Lotus Notes is a client-server collaborative software and email system provided by IBM. The Lotus Notes email client application is capable of communicating with email servers over a range of protocols, such as: SMTP, POP, and IMAP. Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in IBM Lotus Notes attachment viewer. The vulnerabilities are result of an insufficient boundary checking while processing the Frame Maker Interchange File (MIF) files. A remote attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities by enticing the target user to open a crafted MIF email attachment, potentially causing arbitrary code to be injected and executed in the security context of the current user. In case of an attack where code injection is not successful, all instances of the vulnerable IBM Lotus Notes application will terminate. In case of an attack where code injection and execution is not successful, the behavior of the target host 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 user. The affected application would also most likely stop functioning as a result of such an attack.

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 IBM Lotus Notes MIF Attachment Viewer 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:  NNTP Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  IBM Lotus Notes MIF attachment viewer buffer overflow

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