Check Point Advisories

Adobe Photoshop TIFF Parsing Heap Buffer Overflow

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2012-286
Date Published:	2 Jul 2012
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Wednesday 27 June, 2012
Source:
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Photoshop. The vulnerability is due to a heap buffer overflow when handling specially crafted TIFF files. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target user to open a specially crafted TIFF file using an affected version of Adobe Photoshop. Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, in the security context of the logged on user.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the transferring of specially crafted TIFF 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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Adobe Photoshop TIFF Parsing Heap Buffer 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: Adobe Products Violation.
Attack Information: Adobe Photoshop TIFF parsing heap buffer overflow