Check Point Advisories

McAfee Security Center MCINSCTL.DLL ActiveX Control File Overwrite - Ver2 (CVE-2005-3657)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2006-168
Date Published:	26 Mar 2015
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Thursday 26 March, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2005-3657
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	The McAfee Security Center application is meant to allow users to set preferences and settings for numerous installed McAfee components and services, such as the anti-virus component VirusScan, the Personal Firewall Plus, the Privacy Service, or the SpamKiller component. The Security Control Center is capable of manually, or automatically downloading and updating McAfee products. This functionality is implemented by way of an ActiveX control installed with the Security Control Center, the McAfee Installer Control, in the dynamically linked library (DLL) mcinsctl.dll. A single DLL can contain any number of ActiveX Controls, the McAfee Installer Control DLL exports two controls, one for installing and updating software, the McInstaller, and one for creating log files, the McLog. A vulnerability exists in the McAfee Security Center product. The flaw is caused by a lack of implementation of domain-based access restrictions on the McLog ActiveX control provided by the affected product. A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability via a specially crafted Web page to write arbitrary files on the target system. After successfully exploiting this vulnerability, a file on the target file system might be created, modified, or overwritten. An attacker may write a file to a startup folder in order to execute arbitrary code during the next reboot or logon session or overwrite credential files on the system in order to gain access to the system. Thus, the behaviour of the target depends on the intention of the attacker.

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 McAfee Security Center MCINSCTL.DLL ActiveX Control File Overwrite - 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: Security Products Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: McAfee Security Center MCINSCTL.DLL ActiveX Control File Overwrite - Ver2