Check Point Advisories

CA Multiple Products AV Engine CAB Header Parsing Stack Overflow (CVE-2007-2864)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2011-092
Date Published:	27 Mar 2011
Severity:	Critical
Last Updated:	Thursday 02 April, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2007-2864
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	CA provides an anti-virus engine that is shared among multiple applications and products. The anti-virus engine is capable of scanning files stored in numerous archive format. One of these archive format is the Microsoft Cabinet (CAB) file format. A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in multiple Computer Associates products. The vulnerability exists in the component that processes CAB files in multiple Computer Associates products. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by sending a specially crafted CAB file to a target system. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable system and may result in a denial of service condition.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the transferring of malformed CAB 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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the CA Multiple Products AV Engine CAB Header Parsing Stack 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: Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information: CA multiple products AV engine CAB header parsing stack overflow