Check Point Advisories

Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools ActiveX Memory Corruption (MS10-034; CVE-2010-0811)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2010-001
Date Published: 8 Jun 2010
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Tuesday 06 November, 2012
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2010-0811
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools. The vulnerability is due to the way Internet Explorer accesses the Developer Tools ActiveX control. To trigger this issue, an attacker may create a malicious web page that will cause Internet Explorer to exit unexpectedly. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will crash the browser, and may allow execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable system.

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 / R71 / R70 / R65

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools ActiveX Memory Corruption (MS10-034) 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:  Internet Explorer 8 developer tools ActiveX memory corruption (MS10-034)

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