ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1

Thu Feb 5 19:54:15 UTC 2004

Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:

> 
> Checkpoint Firewall-1 HTTP Parsing Format String Vulnerabilities
> Vendor Notification Schedule:
> Vendor notified - 2/2/2004
> Checkpoint patch developed and made available - 2/4/2004
> ISS X-Force Advisory released - 2/4/2004
> 
> Checkpoint VPN-1/SecureClient ISAKMP Buffer Overflow
> Vendor Notification Schedule:
> Vendor notified - 2/2/2004
> Checkpoint patch developed and made available - 2/4/2004
> ISS X-Force Advisory released - 2/4/2004
> 
> Isn't it curious that two unrelated issues have been reported to CheckPoint
> at the same day and the patches came out on the same day ?
> Am I too paranoid, or it seems that CheckPoint had previous knowledge of the
> bugs and they agreed with ISS which date would be stated as notification to
> CP to make it appears that a quick response (two days) has been achieved on
> those issues ?

Uh... yeah, that's how these things are _supposed_ to work. Did
you read the ISS advisory?

   Checkpoint has released an update to address this issue. The update is
   available at the following address:
   http://www.checkpoint.com/techsupport/alerts/index.html

   Vendor Notification Schedule:

   Vendor notified – 2/2/2004
   Checkpoint patch developed and made available – 2/4/2004
   ISS X-Force Advisory released – 2/4/2004

   ISS X-Force published this Security Advisory in coordination with the
   affected vendor in accordance to our published Vulnerability Disclosure
   Guidelines, available at the following address:
   http://documents.iss.net/literature/vulnerability_guidelines.pdf

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ingevaldson, Dan (ISS Atlanta)" <dsi at iss.net>
> To: <nanog at merit.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 1:32 AM
> Subject: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1
> 
> 
> 
> Nanog-
> 
> ISS X-Force release two X-Force Security Advisories this evening
> detailing high-risk issues in Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1.  Please
> refer to the following URLs for more information:
> 
> http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/162
> http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/163
> 
> ------------------
> Daniel Ingevaldson
> Director, X-Force R&D
> dsi at iss.net
> 404-236-3160
> 
> Internet Security Systems, Inc.
> The Power to Protect
> http://www.iss.net
> 
> 

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