Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Office Drawing Shape Group Properties Buffer Overflow - Ver2 (CVE-2010-0243)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2014-1460
Date Published:	16 Apr 2014
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Wednesday 16 April, 2014
Source:	CVE-2010-0243
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R77 R76 R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	A buffer overflow inclusion vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Office Excel. The vulnerability is due to a memory corruption error in Microsoft Office when loading malformed Excel records. 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 R77 / R76 / R75 / R71 / R70

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft Office Drawing Shape Group Properties Buffer Overflow - 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 Drawing Shape Group Properties Buffer Overflow - Ver2