Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Windows Uniscribe Font Parsing Engine Memory Corruption (MS13-060; CVE-2013-3181)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2013-2517
Date Published: 13 Aug 2013
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Sunday 10 November, 2013
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2013-3181
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Unicode Scripts Processor (also known as Uniscribe) included in affected versions of Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability is caused when the Unicode Scripts Processor, included in affected versions of Microsoft Windows, incorrectly parses specific font types in a way that corrupts memory and allows for arbitrary code to be executed. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code as the current user.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

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 Uniscribe Font Parsing Engine Memory Corruption (MS13-060) 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:  Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft Windows Uniscribe Font Parsing Engine Memory Corruption (MS13-060)

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