Check Point Advisories

HP Photo Creative audio.Record ActiveX Stack Buffer Overflow

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2011-022
Date Published:	8 Feb 2011
Severity:	Medium
Last Updated:	Tuesday 08 February, 2011
Source:
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	HP Photo Creative is free software offered by HP. It allows users to create photo books, calendars, and collages which can be printed or shipped to the user. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in HP Photo Creative ActiveX control. The vulnerability is due to a boundary error in ContentMan.dll while parsing arguments passed to the Resample function of the audio.Record ActiveX control. A remote attacker could exploit this issue by enticing the target users to visit a specially crafted web page. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would result in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the logged in user.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the vulnerable HP ActiveX control.

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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the HP Photo Creative audio.Record ActiveX Stack Buffer Overflow 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: Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: HP Photo Creative audio.Record ActiveX stack buffer overflow