Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Active Directory LDAP Request Memory Consumption (MS13-032; CVE-2013-1282)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2013-1645
Date Published: 9 Apr 2013
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 26 July, 2021
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2013-1282
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A denial of service vulnerability exists in the implementations of Active Directory. Successful exploitation could cause the service to stop responding. The vulnerability is caused when the LDAP service fails to handle a specially crafted query. A Remote attacker can exploit this issue via a specially crafted LDAP request sent to a vulnerable Active Directory server.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block malformed LDAP requests sent to the Active Directory server.

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 R81 / R80 / R77 / R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft Active Directory LDAP Request Memory Consumption (MS13-032) 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:  LDAP Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft Active Directory LDAP Request Memory Consumption (MS13-032)

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