Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Step-by-Step Interactive Training Buffer Overflow (MS07-005; CVE-2006-3448)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-027
Date Published: 15 Feb 2007
Severity: High
Last Updated: Thursday 15 February, 2007
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2006-3448
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Step-by-Step Interactive Training is an engine for interactive training titles provided by Microsoft Press and other vendors. By using the Step-by-Step Interactive Training user interface Bookmark link files (.CBO,.CBL,.CBM) are created. These files allow easier access to a particular topic, and contain the information that is required by Step-by-Step Interactive Training to view a topic.A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Step-by-Step Interactive Training. The application fails to properly handle malformed bookmark link files. To trigger this flaw, an attacker can specially craft a malicious Web page with a malformed bookmark file. Successful exploitation could result in remote code execution on an affected system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the transferring of malformed bookmark link files over HTTP.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 Step-by-Step Interactive Training Buffer Overflow (MS07-005) 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:  Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft Step-by-Step Interactive Training buffer overflow (MS07-005)

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