Check Point Advisories

Microsoft PowerPoint Malformed Record Code Execution (MS06-058) - ver 2 (CVE-2006-4694)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2015-0265
Date Published: 22 Mar 2015
Severity: High
Last Updated: Thursday 02 April, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2006-4694
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A memory corruption vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft PowerPoint. The flaw is caused by an insufficient checks of a malformed record contained within a PowerPoint file. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to inject and execute arbitrary code in the security context of the currently 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, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft PowerPoint Malformed Record Code Execution (MS06-058) - ver 2 protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft PowerPoint malformed record code execution (MS06-058) - ver 2

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