Check Point Advisories

IBM Lotus Notes WPD Attachment Handling Buffer Overflow (CVE-2008-4564)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2009-338
Date Published: 27 Apr 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 28 December, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2008-4564
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 the SMTP, POP, and IMAP protocols. A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the IBM Lotus Notes WPD. The vulnerability is due to a boundary-check error when processing Corel WordPerfect (WPD) files. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted Corel WordPerfect file to the target users, potentially causing arbitrary code to be injected and executed on the target system in the security context of the current user. In case of an attack where code injection is not successful, the instance of the vulnerable IBM Lotus Notes application will terminate abnormally. 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.

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 WPD Attachment Handling 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 WPD attachment handling buffer overflow

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