Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Visual Studio WMI Object Code Execution (MS06-073; CVE-2006-4704)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2006-141
Date Published: 16 Nov 2006
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Thursday 16 November, 2006
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2006-4704
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Microsoft Visual Studio is a software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms supported by Microsoft's .NET Framework. By convincing a user to visit a specially crafted Web page, a remote attacker may trigger this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to an error in the WMI Object Broker ActiveX control (WmiScriptUtils.dll). An attacker can trigger this flaw by convincing a user to view a specially crafted HTML document. Successful exploitation could result in the execution of arbitrary code once the malicious page is loaded.

Protection Overview

This protection will block the vulnerable COM object.The detect mode makes it possible to track unauthorized access attempts without blocking them.

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 / R71 / R70 / R65

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft Visual Studio WMI Object Code Execution (MS06-073) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft Visual Studio WMI object code execution (MS06-073)

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