Check Point Advisories

Adobe Shockwave Player MMAP Size Memory Corruption (APSB10-20; CVE-2010-2870)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2010-250
Date Published: 24 Aug 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Tuesday 24 August, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2010-2870
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Adobe Shockwave is a multimedia player that allows Adobe Director applications to be published on the Internet and viewed in a web browser by anyone who has the Shockwave plug-in installed. A memory corruption vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Shockwave Player. The vulnerability is due to an error in Adobe Shockwave Player while parsing specially crafted Director files. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by enticing a user to open a malicious DIR file. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would lead to memory corruption.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the transferring of malformed .dir 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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Adobe Shockwave Player MMAP Size Memory Corruption (APSB10-20) 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 Shockwave Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Adobe Shockwave Player MMAP size memory corruption (APSB10-20)

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