Check Point Advisories

Microsoft Visual Studio RPT File Handling Code Execution (MS07-052; CVE-2006-6133)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-115
Date Published: 17 Sep 2007
Severity: Medium
Last Updated: Monday 17 September, 2007
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2006-6133
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Crystal Reports is a software used for designing and generating reports from numerous data sources. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been identified in Business Objects Crystal Reports. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw by convincing a victim to open a specially crafted Crystal Reports file.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of arbitrary code on a target system.

Protection Overview

This protection will block the transferring of the crafted .RPT files over HTTP.The detect mode makes it possible to track unauthorized traffic without blocking it.Depending on the traffic mix, activating this protection may result in performance degradation.

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 RPT File Handling Code Execution (MS07-052) 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 Visual Studio RPT File Handling Code Execution (MS07-052)

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