Check Point Advisories

Free Download Manager Torrent File Parsing Multiple Buffer Overflows (CVE-2009-0184)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2009-371
Date Published: 27 Apr 2010
Severity: Medium
Last Updated: Tuesday 27 April, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2009-0184
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Free Download Manager is an open source free download accelerator and manager software distributed under GPL license. It includes various features and components, such as upload manager, Flash video download, Remote Control Server, BitTorrent support, smart file management, a powerful scheduler and many other features. There exist multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Free Download Manager. The vulnerabilities are due to boundary errors while parsing various fields within a crafted Torrent file. Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to open a crafted Torrent file, thereby creating a denial of service condition or potentially injecting and executing arbitrary code. In case of an attack where code injection is not successful, the application will terminate abnormally. In case of an attack where code injection and execution is successful, the behavior of the target machine is dependent on the intended purpose of the injected code. Any code injected into the vulnerable component would execute in the security context of the currently logged in 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 Free Download Manager Torrent File Parsing Multiple Buffer Overflows 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:  Free Download Manager Torrent file parsing multiple buffer overflows

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