Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2014-1632 |
Date Published: | 12 Jun 2014 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Thursday 12 June, 2014 |
Source: | CVE-2011-3026 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | An integer overflow vulnerability has been reported in libpng, an open source implementation of the PNG specification. The vulnerability is due to a heap allocation in the function png_decompress_chunk(). Remote attackers could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted PNG file to the vulnerable service. Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the security context of the affected service. |
This protection will detect and block specially crafted PNG files.
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.
SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information: libpng png_decompress_chunk Integer Overflow - ver 2