Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2015-0707 |
Date Published: | 18 May 2015 |
Severity: | High |
Last Updated: | Monday 18 May, 2015 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2008-3014 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | Windows Metafile (WMF) is a 16-bit metafile image format optimized for the Windows operating system that can contain both vector information and bitmap information. A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in the way GDI+ allocates memory for WMF image files. The vulnerability is due to a buffer overrun when GDI+ fails to properly allocates memory in malformed WMF image files. A remote attacker may trigger this issue by convincing a user to open a specially crafted WMF image file. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of arbitrary code on an affected system. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Microsoft Windows GDI+ WMF Parsing Buffer Overflow (MS08-052) - Ver2