Check Point Advisories

Adobe Flash Player Malformed SWF File Information Disclosure (APSB13-05; CVE-2013-0637)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2013-1295
Date Published: 3 Mar 2013
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Thursday 21 February, 2013
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2013-0637
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description An information disclosure vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Flash Player. The vulnerability is due to an error while handling specially crafted SWF files. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to open an HTML document containing an embedded malformed Flash file (SWF) with an affected product. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to view personal user information.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the transferring of malformed SWF 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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Adobe Flash Player Malformed SWF File Information Disclosure (APSB13-05) 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 malformed SWF file information disclosure (APSB13-05)

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