Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2010-271 |
Date Published: | 12 Oct 2010 |
Severity: | High |
Last Updated: | Tuesday 12 October, 2010 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2010-3329 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is due to the way Internet Explorer accesses an object that has not been initialized or has been deleted when a document in an HTML format is opened in Microsoft Word. To trigger this issue, an attacker may create a malicious Word file that will exploit this flaw within Internet Explorer. Successful exploitation may allow the attacker to take complete control of an affected 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 HtmlDlgHelper class memory corruption (MS10-071)