Check Point Advisories

Internet Explorer Objects Handling Memory Corruption (CVE-2008-2254)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2008-329
Date Published: 19 Jul 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 19 July, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2008-2254
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) is the most widely used web browser application today. The browser is capable of processing HTML, scripting languages, and interpretation of various other popular Internet specifications. There are numerous versions of the HTML standard that are interpreted by the browser. There exists a memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer. A crafted webpage can cause Internet Explorer to access uninitialized memory leading to a crash or execution of arbitrary code within the context of the currently logged in user. An attack targeting this vulnerability can result in the injection and execution of arbitrary code. If code execution is successful, the behavior 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 an attack case where code execution is unsuccessful, Internet Explorer may terminate abnormally.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Internet Explorer Objects Handling Memory Corruption protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft Internet Explorer objects handling memory corruption

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