Check Point Advisories

Adobe Shockwave Director rcsL Chunk Remote Code Execution (APSA10-04; CVE-2010-3653)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2010-299
Date Published: 27 Oct 2010
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Wednesday 27 October, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2010-3653
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. An attacker can exploit this issue via a specially crafted DIR file. A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability to take complete control of an affected system. The vulnerability is due to an error in Adobe Shockwave Player while parsing a value from an rcsL RIFF chunk record in 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 that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Protection Overview

This protection detects and blocks the transferring of malformed Adobe 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 Director rcsL Chunk Remote Code Execution (APSA10-04) 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 Director rcsL Chunk Remote Code Execution (APSA10-04)

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