Check Point Advisories

Adobe Flash Player ActionScript DOM Object Memory Corruption (APSB12-14; CVE-2012-2034)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2012-274
Date Published: 18 Jun 2012
Severity: High
Last Updated: Thursday 14 June, 2012
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2012-2034
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Flash Player. The vulnerability is due to memory corruption while parsing an Adobe Flash file containing specially crafted ActionScript code. A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target user to open a specially crafted Flash file using an affected version of Adobe Flash Player. Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the transferring of specially crafted Flash files.

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 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Adobe Flash Player ActionScript DOM Object Memory Corruption (APSB12-14) 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:  Adobe Products Violation.
Attack Information:  Adobe Flash Player ActionScript DOM Object Memory Corruption (APSB12-14)

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