Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Excel Row Record Heap Buffer Overflow - Ver2 (CVE-2009-3130)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-0803
Date Published: 3 Feb 2014
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Thursday 28 March, 2024
Source: CVE-2009-3130
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R75

Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Office Excel. The vulnerability is due to an error in Microsoft Office Excel that fails to properly parse the Excel spreadsheet file format. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by convincing a victim to open a specially crafted Excel spreadsheet file that includes a malformed BIFF record. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your product to the latest update. For information on how to update , go to SBP-2006-05, Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R75 / R71 / R70

  1. On the IPS tab, click Protections, find the protection using the search tool and edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all modules.

On SmartView Tracker:

  1. Click on IPS Blade > All.
  2. Filter the logs by the Protection name

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