Check Point Advisories

InterNetNews Control Message Handling Buffer Overflow - Ver2 (CVE-2004-0045)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2004-105
Date Published:	28 Dec 2014
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Sunday 28 December, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2004-0045
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	The InterNetNews package (INN) is a complete Usenet system. It includes innd, an NNTP server, and nnrpd, a newsreading server. A vulnerability exists in the NNTP server component of InterNetNews (INN), which can be exploited to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error during the handling of control messages. This can result in a buffer overflow when filing control messages into per-type newsgroups.

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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the InterNetNews Control Message Handling Buffer Overflow - Ver2 protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: NNTP Protection Violation.
Attack Information: InterNetNews Control Message Handling Buffer Overflow - Ver2