Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Office Text Converter Integer Underflow Code Execution - Ver2 (CVE-2009-0087)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2014-1103
Date Published:	3 Mar 2014
Severity:	Critical
Last Updated:	Monday 03 March, 2014
Source:	CVE-2009-0087
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R75 and above
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	A code execution vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Office Word. The vulnerability is due to a memory corruption error when WordPad and Office Text Converters parse a specially crafted file that includes malformed data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by convincing a victim to open a specially crafted document. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.

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, Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R70 / R71 / R75 and above

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft Office Text Converter Integer Underflow Code Execution - Ver2 protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all modules.

SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:

Attack Name:  Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft Office Text Converter Integer Underflow Code Execution - Ver2