Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Office Publisher Array Indexing Memory Corruption (MS10-103; CVE-2010-3955)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2010-324
Date Published: 14 Dec 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Tuesday 29 December, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2010-3955
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing application for creating marketing materials, managing customer lists and more A remote attacker can exploit this issue via a specially crafted Publisher file. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable system. The vulnerability is due to an error Microsoft Publisher that fails to properly parse specially crafted Publisher files. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow execution of arbitrary code once the malformed file is opened on a vulnerable system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the transferring of malformed Publisher 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 / R65

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft Office Publisher Array Indexing Memory Corruption (MS10-103) 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:  Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft Office Publisher Array Indexing memory corruption (MS10-103)

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