Title: Check Point Firewall-1/VPN-1 Management Station Format String Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
The Firewall-1/VPN-1 management station softare contains a format string vulnerability. The condition is present only after a client connected from an authorized IP address is authenticated as a valid administrator.
The vulnerability is the result of passing client-supplied data to a printf* function as the format string argument.
Most "printf" implementations support a format specifier that writes the number of characters to be output to a supplied location in memory.
If user data is included in the format string, malicious users can use these format specifiers to write almost arbitrary values to memory locations that they may be able to supply. It may be possible, for example, for attrackers to have a printf function replace function return addresses or function pointers with pointers to supplied shellcode.
Administrators with limited privileges (such as read-only) may be able to exploit this vulnerability to gain control over the target management station.
Affected Products:
- Check Point Software Firewall-1 4.1.0
- Check Point Software Firewall-1 4.1.0 SP1
- Check Point Software Firewall-1 4.1.0 SP2
- Check Point Software Firewall-1 4.1.0 SP3
- Check Point Software Providor-1 4.1.0
- Check Point Software Providor-1 4.1.0 SP1
- Check Point Software Providor-1 4.1.0 SP2
- Check Point Software Providor-1 4.1.0 SP3
- Check Point Software VPN-1 4.1.0
- Check Point Software VPN-1 4.1.0 SP1
- Check Point Software VPN-1 4.1.0 SP3
- Nokia IPSO 3.3.0
- Nokia IPSO 3.3.0SP1
- Nokia IPSO 3.3.0SP2
- Nokia IPSO 3.3.0SP3
References:
- Check Point Software: Check Point Alerts
- Check Point Software: FireWall-1 Product Homepage
- Check Point Software: Format Strings Vulnerability
- Check Point Software: Software Subscription Download Site
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