Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2009-263 |
Date Published: | 8 Dec 2009 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Tuesday 08 December, 2009 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2009-3673 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most widely used Internet browser. A memory corruption vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is due to the way Internet Explorer accesses an object that has not been correctly initialized or has been deleted. To trigger this issue, an attacker may create a malicious web page that will cause Internet Explorer to access exit unexpectedly. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will crash the browser, and may allow execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable 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 page refresh uninitialized memory corruption (MS09-072)