Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2004-190 |
Date Published: | 18 Feb 2010 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Sunday 09 April, 2017 |
Source: | Microsoft MS11-003 |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2004-0842 CVE-2010-3971 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 |
Vulnerability Description | Microsoft Internet Explorer is a popular web browser provided by Microsoft Corporation. Its web engine is also incorporated into other Microsoft products including Outlook. The product supports Cascading Style Sheets. A vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft Internet Explorer renders web pages using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). When the vulnerable software is used to view a malicious CSS web page, a buffer may be overrun. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject and execute arbitrary code on a system running the vulnerable software. If the exploit simply overflows the buffer with arbitrary data, then the application may crash, creating a denial of service condition. In general, the DoS condition is likely limited to the current user and the application can be restarted. An attacker can also choose to carefully craft the buffer overflow in in order to inject code into the vulnerable product. Upon successful exploitation, the attacker supplied data could gain control of the current process resulting in code execution. The actual behavior of the attack target in this case depends on the actual exploit code injected by an attacker. |
Update/Patch Avaliable | Apply patches from: MS11-003 |
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: Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS Import Use-After-Free Code Execution (MS11-003)