Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2008-025 |
Date Published: | 12 Feb 2008 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Tuesday 12 February, 2008 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2008-0078 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most widely used Internet browser. The vulnerability is due to a memory corruption error in Microsoft Internet Explorer when handling argument validation, under certain circumstances, in image processing. A remote attacker could exploit this issue by convincing a user to visit a malicious Web page. Successful exploitation of this issue could allow remote code execution on the affected system. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Internet Explorer image processing memory corruption (MS08-010)