Check Point Advisories

Nullsoft Winamp Player Playlists Name Handling Buffer Overflow (CVE-2006-0476; CVE-2006-0708)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2006-179
Date Published:	3 Dec 2009
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Sunday 28 December, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2006-0476 CVE-2006-0708
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	NullSoft Winamp is a multimedia player that is capable of playing many formats of audio and video files. Winamp is capable of retrieving and displaying meta data embedded in media files. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in Nullsoft Winamp Player. The vulnerability is caused by insufficient data sanitization during playlist file processing. An attacker may exploit the vulnerability by enticing a user to open a crafted playlist file with the affected product, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code on the target host. In an attack scenario where arbitrary code is attempted to be injected and executed on the target machine, the behavior of the target host is dependent on the intention of the attacker. Any code injected into the vulnerable program would execute in the security context of the currently logged in user. If such an attack is not executed successfully, the vulnerable application may terminate as a result of the attack attempt.

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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Nullsoft Winamp Player Playlists Name Handling Buffer 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: Media Player Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Nullsoft Winamp Player playlists name handling buffer overflow