Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2015-0739 |
Date Published: | 18 May 2015 |
Severity: | High |
Last Updated: | Monday 18 May, 2015 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2013-1282 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | A denial of service vulnerability exists in the implementations of Active Directory. Successful exploitation could cause the service to stop responding. The vulnerability is caused when the LDAP service fails to handle a specially crafted query. A Remote attacker can exploit this issue via a specially crafted LDAP request sent to a vulnerable Active Directory server. |
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.
This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: LDAP Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Microsoft Active Directory LDAP Request Memory Consumption (MS13-032) - Ver2