Check Point Advisories

PDFium out-of-bounds read and integer overflow

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2018-0138
Date Published:	19 Feb 2018
Severity:	Medium
Last Updated:	Monday 19 February, 2018
Source:
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?	PDFium
Vulnerability Description	An out-of-bounds and integer overflow vulnerabilities exists in PDFium. The vulnerabilities is due to an error in parsing a malformed PDF document. Successful exploitation could result in sensitive data exposure and memory corruption.

Protection Overview

This protection detects 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 PDFium out-of-bounds read and integer overflow 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: Adobe Products Violation.
Attack Information: PDFium out-of-bounds read and integer overflow