Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Visual Basic VBE6.DLL Stack Memory Corruption (MS10-031; CVE-2010-0815)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2010-075
Date Published:	11 May 2010
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Monday 26 May, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2010-0815
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Microsoft Visual Basic (VBA) is a technology for developing client desktop packaged applications and integrating them with existing data and systems. Microsoft Office products include VBA and make use of VBA to perform certain functions. A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in the way that Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications searches for ActiveX controls. The vulnerability is caused by the way Visual Basic for Applications searches for ActiveX controls in a document that supports VBA. A remote attacker may trigger this vulnerability by passing a specially crafted document with embedded ActiveX controls to VBA. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the transferring of malformed PowerPoint files over HTTP.

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 / R71 / R70 / R65

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft Visual Basic VBE6.DLL Stack Memory Corruption (MS10-031) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Microsoft Visual Basic VBE6.DLL stack memory corruption (MS10-031)