Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Excel SxView Record Parsing Memory Corruption (MS10-038; CVE-2010-0821)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2010-097
Date Published: 8 Jun 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Tuesday 31 January, 2012
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2010-0821
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application released by the Microsoft Corporation. Its native file format is the Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF), which is available is several versions. An Excel file contains information about the various spreadsheets that form an Excel workbook, the data and macros that populate spreadsheet cells, and so on. The commonly used file extension of Excel file is xls. A memory corruption vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Excel. The vulnerability is due to an error in Microsoft Office Excel that fails to properly parse the Excel spreadsheet file format. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw by convincing a victim to open a specially crafted Excel spreadsheet file that includes a malformed SxView record. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow execution of arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the transferring of malformed Excel 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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft Excel SxView Record Parsing Memory Corruption (MS10-038) 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:  Microsoft Excel SxView record parsing memory corruption (MS10-038)

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