Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2011-299 |
Date Published: | 10 Jun 2011 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Tuesday 27 September, 2011 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2011-1262 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is due to a memory corruption error in Internet Explorer when handling CDL protocol. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will crash the browser, and may allow execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable system. |
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.
This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Internet Explorer redirect CDL protocol memory corruption (MS11-050)