Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Windows WebDav Mini-Redirector Heap Buffer Overflow (MS08-007) - Ver2 (CVE-2008-0080)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2014-2428
Date Published:	28 Dec 2014
Severity:	Critical
Last Updated:	Sunday 28 December, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2008-0080
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is a set of extensions for HTTP that allows allow clients to publish, lock, and manage resources on the Web. . The vulnerability is due to an error in the Microsoft Windows WebDAV Mini-Redirector that fails to properly handle malformed WebDAV responses. To trigger this issue, an attacker may specially craft a malicious WebDAV response and send it to a target system. Successful exploitation may allow the attacker to take complete control of the vulnerable 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, 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 Microsoft Windows WebDav Mini-Redirector Heap Buffer Overflow (MS08-007) - 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: Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Microsoft Windows WebDav Mini-Redirector Heap Buffer Overflow (MS08-007) - Ver2