Check Point Advisories

Microsoft PowerPoint PPT Document Parsing Code Execution (CVE-2006-5296)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2011-211
Date Published: 3 Apr 2011
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 03 April, 2011
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2006-5296
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Microsoft PowerPoint is a popular graphics software for preparing slides and presentations. A remote code execution vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft PowerPoint. The vulnerability is due to an error in Microsoft PowerPoint that fails to properly parse crafted PPT documents. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw by convincing a victim to open a malformed PPT file. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow execution of arbitrary code on a vulnerable system and may terminate the vulnerable application.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the transferring of malformed PPT 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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft PowerPoint PPT Document Parsing Code Execution 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 PowerPoint PPT document parsing code execution

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