Check Point Advisories

Ingres Database iidbms Heap Overflow

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2010-358
Date Published: 12 May 2010
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Wednesday 12 May, 2010
Source:
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Ingres Database is a relational database product available for both Windows and Unix-like platforms. A vulnerability has been reported in Ingres Database that could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient boundary checking in the iidbms component of the Ingres Database. A remote attacker could exploit this issue by sending a specially crafted request to the database server. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would cause a heap buffer overflow that could cause a denial of service, or allow execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the affected process.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Ingres Database iidbms Heap Overflow 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:  Database Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Ingres Database iidbms heap overflow

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