Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Word TextBox Sub-document Memory Corruption - Ver2 (CVE-2007-1910)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-1369
Date Published: 16 Apr 2014
Severity: High
Last Updated: Wednesday 16 April, 2014
Source: CVE-2007-1910
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-1910
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R77, R76, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Microsoft Word is a document authoring product released by the Microsoft Corporation. A memory corruption vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Word. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of a supplied value inside the Main Stream. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target user to open the malicious file that would trigger the potential memory corruption on the client system. Successful exploitation would cause memory corruption in a way that may lead to abnormal termination of the Word application or potentially execution of arbitrary code in the context of the logged in user.

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 Word TextBox Sub-document Memory Corruption - 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 Word TextBox Sub-document Memory Corruption - Ver2

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