Check Point Advisories

Multiple Multimedia Formats (CVE-2012-4167)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2012-654
Date Published:	28 Oct 2012
Severity:	N/A
Last Updated:	Thursday 18 April, 2013
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2012-4167
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 occurs when parsing specially crafted Flash video files. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by enticing a target victim to open a specially crafted Flash video file. Successful exploitation can lead to arbitrary code execution. There are cases in which certain traffic, although not intended for malicious use, is very unsafe, since it may transfer shellcode which is undetectable by IPS.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the transferring of F4V 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 / R71 / R70

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Multiple Multimedia Formats 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: multiple multimedia formats