Check Point Advisories

BitDefender Online Scanner ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow (CVE-2007-5775)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-351
Date Published: 14 Feb 2010
Severity: Medium
Last Updated: Sunday 14 February, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-5775
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description BitDefender is an antivirus software suite developed by SOFTWIN. BitDefender website offers a free online antivirus scanner. The BitDefender online scanner installation on a Windows system includes an ActiveX control. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in BitDefender Online Scanner. This vulnerability is caused due to boundary error within the BitDefender Online Scanner ActiveX Control. A remote attack can exploit this vulnerability by enticing the target user to open a crafted webpage, 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 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 currently logged in user. In case of an attack where code injection is not successful, the Internet Explorer will terminate abnormally.

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 BitDefender Online Scanner ActiveX Control 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:  Security Products Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  BitDefender Online Scanner ActiveX control buffer overflow

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