Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2008-295 |
Date Published: | 2 Jun 2010 |
Severity: | Medium |
Last Updated: | Sunday 14 February, 2016 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2007-5746 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the OpenOffice software suite. The vulnerability is due to the way OpenOffice parses EMF images. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user to open a malicious EMF file, potentially causing arbitrary code to be injected and executed on the target system in the security context of the logged in user. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, all instances of the vulnerable OpenOffice application will terminate. In a more sophisticated attack scenario 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 current user. The affected application would also most likely stop functioning as a result of such an attack. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information: OpenOffice EMF file EMR_BITBLT record integer overflow