Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2014-1204 |
Date Published: | 31 Mar 2014 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Monday 31 March, 2014 |
Source: | CVE-2012-2915 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in Lattice Semiconductor PAC-Designer. The vulnerability is due to the improper handling of validation of specially crafted pac files. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
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SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: HTTP Protocol Inspection.
Attack Information: Lattice Semiconductor PAC-Designer Symbol Value Buffer Overflow - Ver2