J-Security Center

Title: Check Point Firewall-1 GUI Log Viewer Vulnerability

Severity: HIGH

Description:

Firewall-1 is a popular stateful-inspection firewall.

It has been reported that Firewall-1 may contain a buffer overflow vulnerability. The vulnerability is allegedly in logging of authentication attempts by GUI log viewing clients. If a supplied username is excessive in length, an overflow may occur when the username is logged with a length warning.

It may be possible for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as root on systems running Firewall-1. The attack must be launched from hosts that are permitted to view logs via the GUI interface. This vulnerability is present only in the Windows NT and 2000 versions of the product.

Affected Products:

  • Check Point Software Firewall-1 4.0.0
  • Check Point Software Firewall-1 4.0.0 SP1
  • Check Point Software Firewall-1 4.0.0 SP2
  • Check Point Software Firewall-1 4.0.0 SP3
  • Check Point Software Firewall-1 4.0.0 SP4
  • Check Point Software Firewall-1 4.0.0 SP5
  • Check Point Software Firewall-1 4.0.0 SP6
  • Check Point Software Firewall-1 4.0.0 SP7
  • Check Point Software Firewall-1 4.0.0 SP8
  • 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 Firewall-1 4.1.0 SP4
  • Check Point Software Firewall-1 4.1.0 SP5
  • Check Point Software Next Generation 0.0.0

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