Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Windows RPC Elevation Of Privilege (MS13-062; CVE-2013-3175)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2013-2468
Date Published: 13 Aug 2013
Severity: N/A
Last Updated: Monday 04 November, 2013
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2013-3175
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Windows handles asynchronous RPC requests. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by making malformed RPC requests to a shared host. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code and take complete control of an affected system. 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 attempts to send malformed RPC requests.

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 Microsoft Windows RPC Elevation Of Privilege (MS13-062) 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:  MS-RPC Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft Windows RPC Elevation Of Privilege (MS13-062)

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