Check Point Advisories

Internet Explorer Insert Document Object Memory Corruption (MS11-003; CVE-2011-0036)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2011-008
Date Published:	8 Feb 2011
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Thursday 14 February, 2019
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2011-0036
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	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 when parsing specially crafted Web content. 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 via malicious HTML pages.

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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Internet Explorer Insert Document Object Memory Corruption (MS11-003) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
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 insert document object memory corruption (MS11-003)