Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Outlook RTF Email Parsing Heap Based Buffer Overflow (MS10-064; CVE-2010-2728)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2010-265
Date Published:	14 Sep 2010
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Tuesday 14 September, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2010-2728
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Microsoft Outlook is an e-mail application and a personal information manager. A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in the way that Microsoft Outlook parses content in a specially crafted e-mail message. The vulnerability is due to an error in Microsoft Outlook that fails to properly handle the parsing of specially crafted e-mail messages. A remote attacker may exploit this issue by sending a specially crafted e-mail message to a user. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow the attacker to take complete control of an affected system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block malformed RTF e-mails sent to the vulnerable system.

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 Outlook RTF Email Parsing Heap Based Buffer Overflow (MS10-064) 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: SMTP Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Microsoft Outlook RTF email parsing heap based buffer overflow (MS10-064)