Check Point Advisories

Adobe Shockwave Player Director File FFFFFF88 Record Integer Overflow (CVE-2010-2876; CVE-2010-4192)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2010-163
Date Published:	4 Oct 2010
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Monday 04 October, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2010-2876 CVE-2010-4192
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Adobe Shockwave is a multimedia player that allows users to view interactive web content such as games, business presentations, entertainment, and advertisements from the web browser. It allows Adobe Director applications to be published on the Internet and viewed in a web browser on systems which have the Shockwave plug-in installed. A code execution vulnerability exists in Adobe Shockwave player. The vulnerability is due to an integer overflow error while calculating the size value for heap memory allocation while parsing a FFFFFF88 record. A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability by enticing target users to open a malicious DIR file using a vulnerable version of the product. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would result in arbitrary code execution in the security context of the 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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Adobe Shockwave Player Director File FFFFFF88 Record Integer Overflow 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: Adobe Shockwave Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Adobe Shockwave Player Director File FFFFFF88 record integer overflow