Check Point Advisories

Adobe AcroPDF ActiveX Control Memory Corruption (CVE-2006-6027)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2006-278
Date Published: 1 Aug 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 14 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2006-6027
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Adobe AcroPDF ActiveX control. The flaw is due by improper handling of arguments passed to certain methods and properties exposed by the control. By enticing a user to open a malicious HTML page, an attacker may inject and execute arbitrary code on the target host. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the application which uses the affected product will terminate abnormally. It is reported that a more sophisticated attack can result in code injection, the behavior of the target host is entirely dependent on the intended function of the injected code.

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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Adobe AcroPDF ActiveX Control Memory Corruption 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:  Adobe AcroPDF ActiveX control memory corruption

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