Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Publisher Function Pointer Overwrite (MS11-091) - Ver2 (CVE-2011-1508)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-1367
Date Published: 16 Apr 2014
Severity: Medium
Last Updated: Wednesday 16 April, 2014
Source: CVE-2011-1508
Industry Reference:CVE-2011-1508
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R77, R76, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A memory corruption vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Publisher. The vulnerability is due to the way Microsoft Publisher does not properly handle memory for function pointers while parsing specially crafted Publisher files. A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target user to open a web-page containing a malformed Publisher file. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to take complete control over the target 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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft Publisher Function Pointer Overwrite (MS11-091) - Ver2 protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all modules.

SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:

Attack Name:  Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft Publisher Function Pointer Overwrite (MS11-091) - Ver2

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