Check Point Advisories

Trend Micro OfficeScan Atxconsole ActiveX Control Format String (CVE-2006-5157)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2006-303
Date Published:	18 Oct 2009
Severity:	Medium
Last Updated:	Tuesday 26 December, 2017
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2006-5157
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	The Trend Micro OfficeScan product is a centralized virus and security scan management system. It is meant to consolidate the coordination of security scan actions and the management of Trend Micro virus scanner products installed on the nodes of an enterprise network. The product is a central command center for the management of infections or vulnerabilities, as well as information regarding virus events or unusual activity. There exists a format string vulnerability in Trend Micro OfficeScan. The vulnerability is due to a format string flaw in the Atxconsole ActiveX control, which allows for a buffer overflow and a potential diversion of the code execution flow. A remote attacker may exploit the vulnerability by enticing the target user to open a malicious HTML page, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable host in the security context of the target browser. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the browser which loads the ActiveX object will terminate abnormally. In a more sophisticated attack attempt which results in successful code injection, the behaviour of the target host is entirely dependent on the intended function of the injected code. The code in such a case would execute within the security context of the current user account.

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 Trend Micro OfficeScan Atxconsole ActiveX Control Format String 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: Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Trend Micro OfficeScan Atxconsole ActiveX control format string