Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2011-219 |
Date Published: | 12 Apr 2011 |
Severity: | High |
Last Updated: | Tuesday 12 April, 2011 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2011-0028 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | WordPad Text Converters allow users who do not have Microsoft Office Word installed to open documents in other Microsoft Windows applications. A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft WordPad. The vulnerability is due to an error in the WordPad converter that fails to correctly parse the sprmTTextFlow and the sprmTSplit fields in a Word document. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw by convincing a victim to open a specially crafted document. Successful exploitation of this issue allows execution of arbitrary code once a malformed file is being loaded on a vulnerable system. |
This protection will detect and block the transferring of malformed Word 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.
This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Microsoft WordPad Converter sprm record parsing code execution (MS11-033)