Check Point Advisories

Adobe Flash Player Deprecated Tag Memory Corruption (APSB10-14; CVE-2010-2186)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2010-212
Date Published: 21 Jun 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 21 June, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2010-2186
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description The Adobe Flash Player is a multimedia and application player that renders Shockwave Flash (SWF) files. A memory corruption vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Flash Player. The vulnerability is due to an error in the Adobe Flash Player. A remote attacker might exploit this issue by convincing a victim to open a specially crafted SWF file that contains an old and deprecated tag. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Protection Overview

This protection detects and blocks malformed SWF files that contain old and deprecated tags.

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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Adobe Flash Player Deprecated Tag Memory Corruption (APSB10-14) 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:  Adobe Products Violation.
Attack Information:  Adobe Flash Player deprecated tag memory corruption (APSB10-14)

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