Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2012-185 |
Date Published: | 10 May 2012 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Thursday 10 May, 2012 |
Source: | |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Citrix Provisioning Services. The vulnerability is due to an integer underflow when copying a string into a stack buffer while handling a number of different opcodes. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by sending a malicious packet to the target service. Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target machine, in the security context of the target service. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to transfer a malicious packet.
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: Citrix ICA Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Citrix Provisioning Services streamprocess.exe integer underflow