Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2007-362 |
Date Published: | 1 Oct 2009 |
Severity: | High |
Last Updated: | Thursday 01 October, 2009 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2007-3903 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) is a web browser application that is capable of rendering both static and dynamic web content. The application is primarily used for tasks related to web browsing, such as displaying HTML encoded pages, downloading files, etc. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is due to the way Internet Explorer handles unexpected method calls to HTML objects. Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability by persuading target users to visit a specially crafted web page. Successful exploitation may allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable client system, in the context of the logged in user. An attack targeting this vulnerability can result in the injection and execution of arbitrary code. If code execution is successful, the behaviour of the target will depend on the intention of the attacker. Any injected code will be executed within the security context of the currently logged in user. In the case of an unsuccessful code execution attack, Internet Explorer may terminate abnormally. |
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Microsoft Internet Explorer clone object reference memory corruption (MS07-069)