Check Point Advisories

OpenOffice OLE File Stream Buffer Overflow (CVE-2008-0320)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2008-294
Date Published:	5 Oct 2009
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Thursday 14 January, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2008-0320
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	OpenOffice.org is an open source office suite. The suite includes a word processor, a spreadsheet application, a presentation creator, an illustration drawer, a desktop database, and an equation editor. The product is made available for multiple platforms and languages. A heap overflow vulnerability exists in the OpenOffice software suite. The vulnerability is due to the way OpenOffice imports OLE files. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user to open an OLE file, potentially causing arbitrary code to be injected and executed in the security context of the logged in user. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, all instances of the vulnerable OpenOffice application will terminate and unsaved data might be lost. In a more sophisticated attack scenario where code injection is successful, 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. The affected application would also most likely stop functioning as a result of such an attack.

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 OpenOffice OLE File Stream Buffer Overflow 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: Content Protection Violation.
Attack Information: OpenOffice OLE File stream buffer overflow